The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Don’t blame “county lines” victims
Exploited children need protecting, not convicting
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
