Words
Stop mining!
Deeper data shafts just produce useless piles of waste
Problematic
If someone identifies something you’ve said as problematic, they mean you are the problem
Dr Green’s Dictionary: Narrative
In politics, narrative is now less synonymous with events than with their exposure as a pack of lies
Citizens of somewhere
Michael Henderson delves into two different radio programmes with identity at the centre
Erasing women
Why make such efforts to avoid using the word “women”?
Bleak streets
Freedom to die on the streets is no freedom at all
We need to forgive Shamima Begum
An ISIS bride calls Christianity’s bluff
When comedy goes right, it’s very wrong
The Goes Wrong Show expertly mines hilarity through disaster
Murders for late August
A sampling of mysteries that capture the life and geography of places elsewhere
Fighting for the new world order
How Britain’s armed forces adapted to new challenges following the end of the Cold War
Resurrecting the great British sitcom
We are getting dangerously close to saying British sitcom itself should be off limits
Terror and its apologists
The liberal left’s excuses mask the real culprit behind terror attacks
Do the right thing
Shoots must be places of buzzing biodiversity