Maaate
A short story
Rethinking “free speech”
Censorship is not only desirable but necessary if a democratic society and its laws are to function correctly
The debunker’s delusion
Fact-checking and anti-disinformation have fallen victim to the disease they sought to eradicate
Antisocial media
Welcome to the age of the TikTok thug and the home invasion influencer
The matter of Britain
Britain must rediscover its stories and dreams
Who are the British national conservatives?
The Tory right tried to sell the free market to a sceptical populist audience
Compulsory coronation?
Guardian columnists can’t stop telling us how little they care
The kids are alt-right
Outside the Anglosphere, right-wing populism is a youth movement
Is drug work work?
Prohibition is better for the vulnerable
The Green Man is a Christian symbol
Not quite pagan, but not made up either
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
