Bartek Staniszewski
Bartek Staniszewski is a Senior Research Fellow at the think tank Bright Blue and a philosopher. He tweets at @BGStaniszewski
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
The immobile prince
Political chaos masks the stagnation of French economic life
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Revive the roots
To save the Conservative Party, its chairman must return powers to the local associations
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails