Steven Bartlett
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked