Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
Deck the halls with Hallmark films
In praise of a genre that is both beloved and maligned
The tyranny of beauty
We all enjoy a looker, but that does not justify rampant discrimination
A technological prescription
Doctors have to be more aware of technological progress
Medicine’s culture of secrecy
Greater openness could protect patients
Underselling Ulster
Northern Ireland should be bolder in promoting itself
The banality of Barbie
Glossy social commentary does not reflect the facts
Sex matters in medicine
Obscuring biological differences is dangerous
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
