The decline and fall of community cohesion
We need a more substantive model of belonging
Netflixland
Against the flattened world of modern popular culture
Farewell to the counterculture
Róisín Murphy’s cancellation is a tale of poachers turned ideological gamekeepers
Higher education: a diagnosis
We need to address the underlying causes of academic decline
The tyranny of weed
How the drug took over our public spaces
The crisis of loneliness
We have never been more connected, or more isolated
Cancelling the soul
A culture of censoriousness is stifling our civic life
Ghosts of British life
Remembering a forgotten past
The new Christo-elitism
On the dangers of intra-religious alienation
The Benedict XVI generation
How his “dynamic fidelity” responded to the needs of a changing world
Why Roz Adams won
An employment tribunal has defended tolerance and the place of sex realism in society
Fighting lies with lies
What depths will we need to go to in order to tackle disinformation in our own time?
Loony tunes
Opera begs leave to celebrate lunacy in a different way
Against beautiful losers
We must lose our attachment to the good-natured failure
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
Bedazzling
Nigel Farage takes centre stage and everyone else is sidelined
Culture war, what is it good for?
Women will continue to battle for our rights
Five rules for governing
Use your power, bring back politics, extend your wings, rebuild your base — and govern in poetry
The Road to the Cass Review — (4) Keira Bell and Paul Conrathe
The dark realities of gender medicine come to light
Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
