How to survive Twitter
Shame, anonymity and never saying sorry
The pornification of everything
In today’s dating market, women who would prefer porn practices kept out of their bedrooms have little negotiating power
Doctor doesn’t know best
Non-binary blarney in Killarney
Hard lessons in life
Novel gender identities and orientations allow people to claim to be oppressed without suffering any hardship
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake