A hopeful weekend could see defeat for the anti-democrats
For a leaver who took Tony Benn’s view that the EU was not democratic enough, the past few years have been dispiriting to witness. Politicians’ gorm...
Category: Opinion
Universities’ influence on jobs remains a huge obstacle to social mobility
The British have an unhealthy obsession with schooling. At a time of vague if well-nurtured class boundaries there remains an easily understood boundary between...
The flexitarian diet is a model for moral progress
Our politicised age is one of black and white thinking, deeply felt tribals loyalties, and hunting traitors who denounce the faith. As with previous eras of sec...
All sports are unfair, so why the trans fixation?
When Laurel Hubbard put her hands on the barbell at the Pacific Games in Samoa in July, she would have been keenly aware that many dispute her right to compete ...
Alastair Campbell’s expulsion shows the folly of party loyalty
It is an irresistible irony that a spin doctor has lost his position for telling the truth. But for Alastair Campbell, former comms guy for prime minister Tony ...