Tommy Lascelles
Freedom to expose
Do historians and biographers have a moral right to be shown classified documents?
Unfixing Parliament
The governent’s attempt to regain the right to call an election is problematic
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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
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it