Emotions
Feelings don’t care about your facts
Politics is about emotions at least as much as about reason
The right to be reserved
Not everybody wants to open up
Touchy-feely and not that new really
We’re more than our emotions
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
