discourse
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Mental healthing ourselves to death
Our discourse has brought more confusion than clarity
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Religious freedom is back on the agenda
The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill, currently before parliament, is an important step for securing Britain’s role in promoting religious liberty
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
