Discipline
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism