Children
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Why we should give votes to kids
It would stop their interests from being neglected
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Night of the ghost fascism
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested?
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England
