Identity
The self(ie)
Filters seduce, but what happens when the flattering reflection becomes a carnival mirror?
Schools need a reality check
Our educators should be teaching the truth
The matter of Britain
Britain must rediscover its stories and dreams
Building for eternity
Earlier generations of Britons built for the next generation –– but we’re stuck in a selfish present
I’m not an “empath”
Against performative sensitivity
Corecore and cultural fragmentation
Young people are picking through the rubble of old aesthetics
Hold the back page
Football was once a spectacle. The grotesque Qatar World Cup reminds us of all it has become
What if it is just a phase?
Our conception of ourselves is never wholly fixed
Citizens of somewhere
Michael Henderson delves into two different radio programmes with identity at the centre
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
