Laura Freeman
Laura Freeman is a freelance arts critic and book reviewer. She is writing a biography, Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists, to be published by Jonathan Cape
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
Deer prudence
It’s time for a change of attitude to wild British venison
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice