Like cigarettes, junk food should come with a warning: ‘Can kill’ Only regulation will stop fast food firms churning out products we are evolutionarily hardwired to find it difficult to resist The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2024
Emmanuel House is a 21st-century home bringing modernism and minimalism Emmanuel House by Dominic McKenzie is a reimagined 1950s modernist home in London’s St John's Wood Wallpaper · Feb 25, 2024
The first step to our economic liberation is to tear up these crippling fiscal rules How are we to get out of this recession if not through investment, investment, investment? The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024
‘British homes for British workers’ is an empty, century-old, xenophobic slogan Politicians have long used the ‘invader’ trope to distract from failed social housing policies The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2024
Jeremy Hunt, instead of blowing £10bn on tax cuts, why not spend it on boosting growth? Economic dynamism comes from high public investment, for which the rich should be contributing more The Guardian - UK · Jan 21, 2024
Criminalising women is no way for the BBC to make up for funding freezes Female viewers are being disproportionately targeted for not paying the licence fee. It’s got to stop The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2023
How homeowners are creating pet-specific stylish spaces Decor for dogs and cats is becoming increasingly chic, says Sam Wylie-Harris. The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2023
Sorry, Tories, but conjuring up ever more culture wars is bound to backfire If there are two things that will turn away British voters, it’s being told what to do and how to think The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2023
Lefty lawyers, ‘enemies of the people’: how upholding the law is a crime in some eyes Key legal principles are threatened by the growing rightwing attacks on our judiciary The Guardian - UK · Aug 12, 2023
‘Social jetlag’: why a good night’s sleep is now a luxury that many go without Sleep deprivation leads to ill-health but our 24/7 society is inflicting it on more and more of us The Guardian - UK · Aug 5, 2023
If you defend free speech, you must defend it all and not silence those you disagree with Ministers trumpet their law against ‘no-platforming’ in universities, but that doesn’t stop them disinviting critics from their own conferences The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2023
This attempt to cut the pay of public servants offends a basic British sense of fairness The revered philosopher John Rawls had it right: most citizens believe that the government has an obligation to create a just society The Guardian - UK · Jan 22, 2023
America’s ‘Taliban 20’ Republicans have the same roots as our Brexit spartans The deranged politics driving the US Freedom Caucus and Tory anti-Europeans can only lead to one outcome: a death spiral for both The Guardian - UK · Jan 8, 2023
Workable proposals? No, western immigration policy is a theatre of cruelty Another week and more drownings in the Channel. Politicians’ words of regret are hypocritical: they chose not to prevent them The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2022 The signs are clear. Our destiny lies with Europe, not a ‘sovereign global Britain’ fantasy There is a path out of this prosperity-killing shambles and Labour can lead the way
The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2022 We are the country taking the energy crisis least seriously. Even Shell’s boss is baffled Blinded by ideology, the government is determined to pursue its own, self-defeating approach. Will it leave us all in the dark this winter?
The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2022 Britain is becoming a more liberal and open society. But we are ever more divided too Social attitudes are changing. However, so is the nature of the issues that provoke us
The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2022 Can you be both keen on tradition and open to change? Well, that sounds like Britain to me That the country has modernised so quickly is due in part to the continuity provided by the monarchy
The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2022 No longer the most populous, but still China wants to be world number one Indians will soon outnumber Chinese, threatening Beijing’s sense of superiority
The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2022 Forget sentience… the worry is that AI copies human bias The fuss about a bot’s ‘consciousness’ obscures far more troubling concerns
The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2022 Covid has shown flexible working is a benefit only for the privileged few A pilot of four-day weeks is unlikely to bear fruit for low-paid staff with little power to negotiate terms
The Guardian - UK · Mar 27, 2022 China-Russian relations carry deep memories of mutual respect... and scorn As the world awaits Beijing’s response to the Ukraine war, history shows its reaction could be complicated