Bioethics
Good and evil on the new frontier
Our current ethical guidelines are hopelessly inadequate for a new era of unimaginable technological change
Keep the cops out of our minds
Silent thoughts should never be prohibited
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
