Language
The charity Oxfam has come under fire for issuing a bizarre ‘inclusive’ language guide to staff. The 92-page report warns…
Aussie life
Two weeks after our Prime Minister told us he will be attending the coronation of Charles III we still don’t…
Brown study
I am sure you remember The Year My Voice Broke. You probably also remember The Year of Living Dangerously. You…
The Boris soap opera
Even now, months after he was forced to resign, Boris Johnson has a potency that no other British politician can…
Party games
Boris Johnson should not be forgiven for his handling of lockdown. He needlessly criminalised everyday behaviour when voluntary guidelines would…
Childcare: an inconvenient truth
Wyndham Lewis once said that ‘the ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season’ – but that,…
Barometer
Beyond a joke Is it time to rewrite an old joke? A letter published in Time in 1963 suggested that…
A nose of wet chihuahua
Some decades ago, there was a Tory MP called John Stokes: eventually, and deservedly, Sir John. He had no interest…
2597: A couple
Five unclued lights are connected with one partner, four with the other. Another links both. Across 1 Nervous about yarn…
The case for slow change
Some excellent thinking this month from the Italian complexity theorist Luca Dellanna: Two days ago, the EU parliament approved a…
