consent culture
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
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
The sad decline of London pubs
Or, why the hell can I not get a drink after 9?
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
Taking on the right-on with cold, hard facts
A practical manual for anyone who has no choice but to sit on committees with idealistic intellectuals
Row, row, row your boat
“The Boys On The Boat” is wholesome but unconvincing
Free speech and fashionable hypocrisy
Between the Tory government and the University and College Union, will anyone be consistent?
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
I don’t like Mondays
Rishi Sunak has had enough of domestic politics, and is hoping a shooting war in the Red Sea will sway his fortunes