Ethics
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Effective affinities
Moral philosophy, the individual and the future
Our moral language is not okay
The triumph of emotivism
Ethics men
Opera directors are utilising programme books to purvey their moral and ethical wisdom
The moral chaos of Western foreign policy
You can’t take a stand if you don’t know where you stand
Did Mary Whitehouse have a point?
The moral campaigner is having another moment in the spotlight
Sweetening the Covid Kool-Aid
Incentivising vaccination calls medical ethics into question
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
