Fertility
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Pro-parent policies can raise birth rates
Practical change can help people to have as many children as they want
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
It’s not illiberal to care about falling birth rates
Many childless men and women are going to suffer — and so will society
The Gen Z abortion crisis
The sad causes and consequences of a rise in abortion among young people
Make childcare cheaper, not more complicated
We won’t educate children better if there are no children to teach
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
