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Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour