An Anonymous Psychiatrist
The spectre of suicide
Against the weaponisation of youthful suffering
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Why civility matters, even when it’s hard
Swallowing our pride is better than political violence
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
The secret diary of a parly staffer
Time to find something more productive for mediocre graduates to do
Every argument for Israel
Answering the case against Israel point-by-point
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
Stop pampering the left’s attack dog
Hope not Hate are not a reliable judge of what constitutes dangerous extremism