If people are turning to Burnhamism, it’s because the right has failed to put enough guardrails on the opportunities it affords. This seemed perfectly logical to me and makes an interesting comparison to our own approach, which seems to miss a few steps before it gets to the spend stage. Graham CoxBexhillIn the pipelineSir: I enjoyed James Dixon’s defence of the pipe, which provided a convincing argument for smoking slowly in solitude. According to research, 45 per cent of men between the ages of 18 and 25 have never made a romantic approach to a woman in their entire life. The paradox is that around 85 per cent of women want men to make the first move.