Health
NHS? Not Impressed
‘It can’t just be a coincidence that the UK has rubbish colon screening and some of the highest mortality rates for bowel cancer in the Western world’
Heaviest Option
‘A fat tax would earn the Treasury £38 billion a year. But it would only raise that much money if it didn’t work’
Cycle Ire
‘I sympathise with London motorists who are exasperated with massive packs of cyclists’
Embryo Ethics
‘The HFEA has run its course, but we need a new body to protect the embryo’
Big Cyril’s Secrets
The late Sir Cyril Smith is solid proof that fat men are not always harmless men
Dissing the Disabled
Legislation to protect people from disability hate crime will never solve the whole problem; we need to believe in the spirit of the law
Life, Death and the Meaning of Cancer?
The leading cancer specialist, Dr Karol Sikora, and the author and Standpoint columnist, Lionel Shriver, discuss healthcare in Britain and America with the Editor, Daniel Johnson
The Road to Death On Demand
Campaigners to legalise assisted suicide invoke the principle of arbitrary autonomy. This threatens to give us a radically libertarian society at the expense of a humane one
Flimsy Forecasts
We are constantly being warned about crises that will hit us “by 2050”. But long-term projections almost always turn out wrong
Should We Know About our Leaders’ Health?
Three Prime Ministers in the 20th century had historically important illnesses before they assumed office — Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and Anthony Eden. To what extent did their ill health affect their policy decisions?
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?