Tony Blair
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Labour’s looming constitutional vandalism
A Labour landslide will complete the Blairite destruction of Britain’s unique constitution
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
Foxy old Labour
Going after private schools would be an act of pointless institutional vandalism
A time for restoration
An interview with David Starkey
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
Legacy of failure
13 years of missed chances, bungled crises and miserable inaction
Higher education: a diagnosis
We need to address the underlying causes of academic decline
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
