Statism
Labour is trapped in a statist doom-loop
Keir Starmer has a quasi-religious belief in government power
Parents, not the state, should be responsible for children
What has happened to parents when kids cannot brush their teeth?
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany