Unions
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
The Employment Rights Act is wrong for employment
It is terribly expensive and miserably burdensome
How the unions turned against their members
Unions are clamping down on the free speech of ordinary workers
The NHS is letting down its nurses
Female staff should not have to share a changing room with men
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Tube strikes aren’t socialist
Why do so many on the Left back poor quality public services?
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be
It’s not that life is perfect — it just isn’t the 70s
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does