Caution is killing compassion
If we go looking for problematic speech, we’ll probably find it
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
