Parenting is not a statement of the self
Surrogacy as a morbid symptom of modernity
The pronoun ritual
How has it taken over society?
Raped by the IRA
A traumatised victim was interrogated in secret by republicans, let down by a botched prosecution and smeared in the pages of the Guardian
Secular stigmata
Women are caught between different forms of bodily shame
Breaking taboos with clay
Jo Bartosch interviews ceramicist Claudia Clare, whose uncompromising work has upset the censorious art world
Jumping to conclusions, twice
Morality matters as well as the law
Arts Cancel England
Public bodies are dangerously biased
Cutting Edge
A new novel brilliantly skewers gender theory
The meaninglessness of moderation
Compromise is not valuable in itself
The tyranny of acceptance
Not every choice is exactly free or at all good
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment
Dancing around the issues
Who won? Certainly not the country
The EU is overregulating AI
Caution and control are being overemphasised above economic and technological opportunity
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Lettuce be, Liz
Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
AI and the great data robbery
Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
Small boats and big problems
The asylum issue is not going away, and Keir Starmer must face it soon
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
