Childhood
Elegy for the phoneless youth
The lost romance of growing up without the internet
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
