Swearing
In defence of traditional swearing
And against the cult of “cockwomble”
The Cockwombible
James Felton’s new book is lazy and bad
Don’t mind your language
There is bugger-all to celebrate. So create a rich vocabulary of despondency
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
