Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship