The virtues of vice
There is always risk with reward
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
