consent culture
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
A butterfly on an operating table
The abstraction of desire achieves nothing
The progressive war on sex
New norms around “consent” are aimed at destroying the miracle of intimacy
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false