The great mayoralty swindle
If a week is a long time in politics, then seven months must be an age. It was only in January this year that members of Labour’s ruling National Executive…
Sharpe: relic of a lost Britain
Whatever the merits of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, and Matt Damon’s portrayal of Odysseus as a suburban American dad, weary and stricken with guilt over his role in the Great War…
Burnham is keeping his enemies close
Last Monday, Andy Burnham delivered what was perhaps the most ambitious statement of economic intent since 1997. Standing outside Downing Street, the Prime Minister spoke of “a new political model…
Why the rich fall for bullshit therapy
It sounds like a Netflix thriller. First, the mysterious death: an aging high-street fashion mogul falls to his death from a scenic coastal precipice while walking with his middle-aged son,…
We are all Bryan Johnson now
After holding a developmental reading of a play I have been working on about a fictional transhumanist and his world, I was able to briefly correspond with Bryan Johnson. One…
Will the queue bring down Putin?
Few things symbolize late Soviet decay like the queue. I remember, in 1991, walking to the grocery store from school so I could hold a place in line for my…
The truth about Britain’s social-care cartel
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. I’ve seen things Andy Burnham wouldn’t believe. Read more On plagiarism While lying paralyzed in a hospital bed, I have watched NHS nurses…
On plagiarism
The exam season has come and gone, and academics have been sniffing the air for the stench of plagiarism. In the 2024-2025 academic year, more than 2,000 students at Russell…
Gianni Infantino: ultimate ball-breaker
When does it end? When will football’s extraordinary growth stop? Will it ever cease to be the world’s most popular sport? There was a time when it would have seemed…
The abuse of a black teen’s death
Americans were supposed to have left racial reckonings behind, in 2020 or thenabouts. Yet the death of Nolan Wells, a teenage star black athlete from Ocean Springs, Miss., has become…