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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities