Zoe Strimpel

With the regularity of English rain come the panicked stories about the plunging fertility in Europe, the UK, Japan and, thanks to its former One Child Policy, China. Women are doing other things with their lives, having babies is pricey and scary, men won’t settle down, microplastics have harmed their sperm, and, well, the lure of living for oneself into one’s 30s and 40s in such an uncertain world is overpowering!

It used to be that when Jews complained about anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism , eyes rolled. We were boring on about a niche issue! Nobody cared!

The problem with Harris was that her sense of ‘centre’ was blown gruesomely off course by a rabid, obsessed bloc of anti-Israel progressives

One thing we know is that indulgence cost the Democrats the election; and, in the tearful losers, that fatal flaw is on display

The 13 months since October 7 2023 have had a clarifying effect. No more hiding in the murk.

Canary Wharf now offers more than finance, featuring top-tier restaurants, shops, and a unique mix of past and future charm.

How could one eat at his establishment without feeling watched? If you run a restaurant, you have to take the rough with the smooth.

Back in the 1970s, the brilliant insight of the Women's Liberation Movement was that the “personal is political”. Their analysis was spot on – and indeed very prescient.

The culture wars have marched from the periphery – the preoccupation of journalists and tweeters – to the centre

You need outrageous amounts of intellectual arrogance to give first-class answers in Oxbridge finals, and women, famously, have less of it