Down Syndrome
“I’m afraid the news is not good …”
Our confidence in doctor diagnosis is sadly misplaced
Discrimination in the womb
Neither Heidi Crowter nor her husband feel Down’s Syndrome means their lives are not worth living
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet