Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Britain’s Rousseauian delusions
The Noble Savage fable is a comforting story for Britain’s progressives
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Twitter trolls disprove the myth of intrinsic goodness
Virtual reality is real enough to show man in his “natural” state
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions