Why we love medical drama
The morbid and the erotic mingle in the portrayal of surgery
A man adrift
Flesh, by David Szalay, is not radically masculine but quietly humanist
Sterility as liberation
Sex positivity drains the erotic of existential meaning
Gazing out of the abyss
How to live, in spite of everything
The angst of Eros
Debating porn over the decades
Against the neo-prohibitionists
Drug users have agency — let them choose for themselves
The unstoppable rise of geek culture
The cult of Elon Musk reveals some horrible truths about our non-virtual world
Fuccboi: a load of modern toss
A failed American Psycho for the PornHub generation
For the fellas
In What Do Men Want?, Nina Power crafts a peace treaty between the sexes
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency