Issue: July 2023
The pornification of everything
In today’s dating market, women who would prefer porn practices kept out of their bedrooms have little negotiating power
The dissenting doctor
A leading psychiatrist is worried that a new government bill threatens his groundbreaking talking therapy for gender dysphoria
Don’t mention the war
A rosy-hued invocation of the Blitz spirit was a hopelessly misguided metaphor for the Covid pandemic
Pandemics, plagues and pestilence
Germs have been laying waste to civilisations for 50,000 years
Demystifying the cyber-hackers
What is being kept safe, and how, and from whom, are not just engineering questions
Uganda’s horrific anti-homosexuality law
Christians must stand against the Church of Uganda over its support for a horrific law
The duty of care
What, asks this new memoir-manifesto, are families for?
Tech bro summer
Can AI save Rishi’s bacon?
BBC embattled in Donmar’s latest
A new production delves into the tense relationship between the BBC and Stanley Baldwin’s government.
The university lie
Can academia still support meaningful intellectual life?
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Invalid email address
We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
