Comic Books
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
Happily devoid of consequences
The Beano magazine retains its quality but not all its character over the decades
Back from the dead
The UK has a rich comics tradition often obscured by the cultural dominance of Marvel and DC
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks