The soul of the hard hat
On competing visions of modern life
The suburbanisation of Stonehenge
Spiritual clichés offer no more than mere commerce
Inside the box
Microdosing, drug use and interiority
The conversion of Jeffrey Dahmer
How should we think about evil?
The authenticity illusion
We all have a little LARPer inside us
The decline of madness
The colourful history of the Tavistock Clinic
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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
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
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice