Sacred calves
Parental regret should be taboo — because the children might be listening
Chaos Begat Chaos In Kenosha
Kyle Rittenhouse isn’t a cause, but a consequence
What we talk about when we want to do nothing
The problematic discourse is disingenuous opportunism
Leave those kids alone
You have to wonder what the government has against the young
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
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Why has Tehran released Toomaj Salehi?
The regime is said to be split over whether to target high-profile protesters
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
