strikes
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
A floundering academic culture
UCU’s marking boycott is a lesson in hypocrisy
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life