discourse
Deconstructing the architecture of cancel culture
The censorious impulse is degrading intellectual discourse on both sides of the Atlantic
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
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets