The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Life as an accidental émigré
The coronavirus pandemic has birthed a new historically-specific group: the lockdown refugees
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
