Frans Berkhout
Cancel Culture is coming for you
Not speaking up in the hope that it will pass you by is an illusion. It won’t save you
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
