Universal Credit
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
Who benefits from the two child cap lift?
Welfare is unevenly distributed by ethnicity
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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 banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”