Bioethics
Roping the dopes
It all comes down to what you consider sport to be
Good and evil on the new frontier
Our current ethical guidelines are hopelessly inadequate for a new era of unimaginable technological change
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be