Health
The worth of disabled lives is weighed in the womb
Sir Brian Souter’s comments about disability abortion are tragic but true
Let the people smoke!
Life is boring enough without making it duller
Low standards
Institutions should reject WPATH advice
The failing state we’re in
Backlog Britain needs urgent reform
Save it, Slavitt
We all need the facts about monkeypox
The NHS
Not clapping for the NHS
The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure
Gay men have been failed by a lobby that trades in fear rather than facts
TB or not TB: the literature of consumption
No infectious disease has left its scars on the body of literature like tuberculosis
Match made in heaven
Once a habit that cut across class, smoking is now masochistic comfort for the dispossessed
Freedom is fruitless
Young people have suffered enough — don’t force them to have vaccine passports to do the things they enjoy
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
