Everybody I hate is a groomer
Hyperbole and hysteria in the rule of empire of online puritanism
Subversive man subverts
Russell Brand’s bad behaviour was rewarded by a progressive media in love with upending social norms
Britain’s last grown-up
A year after Queen Elizabeth’s death, Britain remains Peter Pan land
Tolkien, 50 years on
The true scale of his legacy is gradually becoming apparent
Notting Hill Carnival needs to clean up its act
The street party shouldn’t be above criticism
The end of the world
Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s best and most important film
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
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
