Ed Sheeran
What happened to sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll?
Music today is anodyne compared to the heydays of Britpop and the sixties and seventies
The gentrification of Drill
The bleak origins of Drill music shouldn’t be forgotten
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall