Remembering Norm Macdonald
Like Peter Cook, he made being funny seem as natural as yawning
The gentrification of Drill
The bleak origins of Drill music shouldn’t be forgotten
Christopher Hitchens’s War
Commentators used 9/11 to keep framing the world as liberty versus totalitarianism
Funny old priorities
Why did Sarah Hussein’s death not attract anything like the interest in Sarah Everard?
Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
The Polish Government’s animal welfare plans have created a political crisis
Poland votes to ban fur farming and ritual slaughter
Blame the Critic
Whose fault is acting essentialism?
A fistful of Gandhis
The condescending contrivances of diversified dosh
Saying racists are racist is better than more silence
Twitter bans and self-denying ordinances won’t erase anti-semitism
Less is more
Higher Education maintains an elevated status because little respect is given to alternatives
Woolf: heart or brain?
Unfettered praise of Virginia Woolf as a “liberated writer” has paved the way for an inexplicably popular type of bad writing
Australia’s Covid crisis
Australia is still standing at the gates of hell, while the rest of the world has already been through it
The belief system doesn’t add up
How the quest to eliminate sex in civil society taps into a dark truth about male power and sexuality
Enduring enjoyment
The nostalgia of live sport continues to live on
Murders for the summer holidays
Jeremy Black recommends a menagerie of disturbing animal-themed stories to entertain throughout the summer
PAP before swine
Processed Animal Protein feed — what could possibly go wrong?
Fighting for the new world order
How Britain’s armed forces adapted to new challenges following the end of the Cold War
Every sport is male sport
Focussing on Laurel Hubbard hides the scores of men dominating women’s sport
Belfast’s best-kept secret
John Self welcomes the reissue of three works by Brian Moore, one of Northern Ireland few novelists who can stand toe-to-toe with the contemporary greats
Who cares about the Channel crisis?
For the media and the Government, only one crisis is worth bothering with