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Storm in a cauldron
As witches’ brews go, it’s rather weak tea
Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
Free trade is worth billions
Ministers need to send Brexit modelers back to re-do their sums
Danger: semantic engineers at work
The institutionalisation of gender-neutral language is designed to change how we think, feel and act
Storied Success
& Other Stories is the new high street Destination of Choice
The asexual lingerie model and other modern mysteries
Why sex-positivity is anti-sex
The end of the story
Boris may escape punishment, but he will still have to answer to the public
Wedlocked
Why the Government squeamishness on mentioning marriage?
Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket
Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
Most Read
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism