David Garry Hughes
David Garry Hughes is a London-based critic. He tweets at @BelovedFire_
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new