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
Gatekeeping the safeguarders
We should put children before ideological conflict
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Why has Tehran released Toomaj Salehi?
The regime is said to be split over whether to target high-profile protesters
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
