Tim Harford
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long