French Open
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future