Ideas
An election without ideas
We need intellectual substance, not just idle gossip
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
Bedazzling
Nigel Farage takes centre stage and everyone else is sidelined
Please look after this bear
A bedraggled Rishi Sunak chases the pity vote
Selected for greatness
Some men are born to greatness, others are parachuted into Tory safe seats
The Golden Age of jockeys
Ryan Moore is most racing professionals’ idea of the best jockey in the world
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Keir has much to fear
Keir Starmer should enjoy the election campaign because he may not enjoy the demands of power
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
The art world must escape gender theory
Grim, irrational ideas still dominate the Arts
Pro-parent policies can raise birth rates
Practical change can help people to have as many children as they want
