How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
The multi-matrixed revolutions
Predictions of a new Cold War understate the complexity of the future
Ubuntu and the path to progress
South Africa cannot continue down the road towards conflict
The children of Terezín
The human will triumph over the technological in culture
Liberalism’s obituarist
John Gray extends his dark critique of the modern world
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
