A very British series
Dr Who has succeeded because and not in spite of its limitations
Boys need books
The gendering of publishing has gone too far
Let children’s stories be children’s stories
We need more respect for the childhood imagination
Physical media matters
We can’t trust streaming services to archive entertainment
The Crown down under
Is Australia still a sceptered isle?
Our kids need sad books
They appreciate beautiful melancholy
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee
The last weird decade
We have lost the oddness of the 1990s
What lies ahead for the Australian election?
Labor’s Anthony Albanese might have a chance
Watching alone
How the internet killed pop culture
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
