Cyrano
Egotist ergo sum
Just stage Cyrano with a great actor breaking wind in a corner, and we’ll all be happy
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
