Frank Hester
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
A Boxing Day treat
It’s Boxing Day — and that means it’s the King George VI Chase at Kempton
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
