Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
The idea of the countryside Pt. 2
English rural life in theory and practice Pt. 2
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
