Matt Shapiro
Matt Shapiro is a writer and engineer.
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?