Equality Law
Come off it, Stonewall
The group has long been an unreliable guide to the law
Equality law is bankrupting Britain
Birmingham is the tip of an iceberg of trash
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight