Health
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
Continued mask wearing won’t help us return to normal
Psychologists know it will do the opposite
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
