Hamas
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
The baddies who don’t know they are
A process of dehumanisation enables the savagery unleashed during the October 7 pogrom
Saving Gaza with a Queer intifada
Saving the world with slam poetry
The T word and the BBC
Why is the Beeb so coy about the nature of Hamas?
No debanking double standards
Claims of hypocrisy are evasive and wrong
Stateless in Gaza
Gaza can no longer be left to rot
Is Belarus entitled to sovereignty?
In the air or on the ground
Pointless bloodshed
Israel will remain intact and strong. Gaza will stay poor and isolated
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
Is Britain a Christian country?
The UK has an established religion alright — the worship of the self
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
