It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
What does diversity mean?
There are different ways of being multicultural
War wounds of Polish history
Overcoming suffering can be a source of pride
Who teaches Poles and what does Poland teach us?
Western lessons to be learnt from the Polish presidential election
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Podcasting while Britain burns
OK, OK, it’s all very deplorable, but Britain’s right wing bloggers still have to make a living
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
