Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Twitter trolls disprove the myth of intrinsic goodness
Virtual reality is real enough to show man in his “natural” state
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised