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The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
The illusion of normality in Nikopol
Determination and death on the front lines of Ukraine
Schrödinger’s sex binary
We have to resist the mass gaslighting of women and girls
“Forced”
Here they walk, they can do no other
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
More shenanigans at the RIBA
Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
Steering clear of titfer tat
We now are seeing the first flowering of a head-dress renaissance
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
No room for reform?
We should hope that even the worst people can change
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
