aphorisms
Island of strangers?
The decline of popular aphorisms reflects the disappearance of a shared moral code
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma