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Martha GillThe Telegraph |
There’s more to life than money, but societies can struggle to express it. When we talk about the state of nations and their citizens, we tend...
Across the rich world, a problem emerges. Children are spending more time hunched over iPhones working on their personal brands and less time building...
‘Britain has never been a ‘papers, please’ society,” said Jacob Rees-Mogg, speaking on his GB News radio show last week. “I’ve always...
You may have missed a recent international incident. Last week, we Brits got wind of a very worrying development across the Channel. “Sausage Dogs...
A familiar set of headlines last week: Brits are growing more prudish. The James Bond film From Russia With Love would today be slapped with a higher...
If Britain were a person, they might strike you as a familiar type. They’re the type that slumps on the sofa, letting problems pile up. There’s...
The dystopian novels of the last century were mostly filled with terrifying visions of the rise of technology – a genre of which we are still to...
What have millennials been complaining about? Far from languishing in poverty as society’s lost stepchildren, they are on course to become the...
The 1970s was a confusing decade in which to be a smoker. People knew, of course, that smoking was bad for them: the evidence linking it to lung...
We spend more time online. We socialise less. Our mental health is getting worse. These three trends have been obvious for some time – particularly...
The human capacity to empathise is among our most celebrated qualities – so it can be rather galling to think this purest of instincts might be...
Why won’t young people join the military? The armed forces have been trying to solve the problem for years. They have tried using YouTube...
There’s just something about corporate chieftains meeting at a ski resort to save the world that seems to get people’s backs up. It could be the...
The royal family is supposed to have divested itself of Prince Andrew. But it hasn’t finished the job. It’s exactly two years since he was...
A central plank of the British character is a fascination with the British character – if the Americans speak of their traits with pride, and the...
Has there ever been so much fuss about an Agatha Christie adaptation? This year’s dose of Christmas homicide, Murder is Easy, has now received a...
As it grows older, more liberal and less religious, the west is changing its mind about how it wants to die. Thirty years ago prescribing people the...
When I hear someone extolling the virtues of homeopathy, I am often reminded of a quotation from the TV show 30 Rock. “There are many kinds of...
Imagine you are the first to notice that something bad has been going on at work. It has been going on for years. Some terrible mistake has been made,...
As we sink deeper into the digital age, a problem emerges. People dislike the idea of giving up their data to some vast and powerful entity. But,...
Is net zero a “luxury belief”? A strange assumption seems to have become knitted into the climate debate: that the burden of cutting carbon...
Was there ever a Christmas tradition so universally despised as turning on the lights in mid-November? Well yes, actually, there was. Do you remember...
Restraint is probably the mark of the true artist, but still it seems odd that Peter Morgan has chosen to end The Crown , which returns this week, in...
‘This system is not business, it is blackmail,” Lloyd George said of leasehold in 1909. More recently, it has been described by Rishi Sunak as...
In the evolutionary arms race between interviewer and interviewee, I think it is inevitable that both roles will at some point be played fully by...
Did you know that “grooming” only began to be used in courtrooms in the 1990s? Before then, the word was “seduction”. And did you know that...
Every afternoon at London Zoo until the early 1970s a table laid with cups, saucers and a teapot would be set out for the chimpanzees. An amusing set...
I magine a judge making these sentencing remarks to a man found guilty of rape: “This is one of the most vicious crimes I have come across. I am...
D id you know you’ll soon be able to take a course in Taylor Swift at Queen Mary University of London? There’s already one of these at a...
A nyone remember Ned Fulmer? Fulmer was one of the Try Guys, a quartet of fairly inoffensive comedians whose YouTube channel was in 2022 valued at...
A geism is perhaps the most paradoxical prejudice: we are, barring accident, discriminating against ourselves. Members of the persecuting in-group are...
The first thing to say about the idea of appointing a minister for men, as suggested last week by Tory MP Nick Fletcher and taken rather seriously by...