Josef Steen
Josef Steen is a freelance writer who has written for Bright Wall/Dark Room and The Quietus
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted