Confessions of a Woke Catholic
How to live with the contradictions of identity and belief
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
