Johannes Brahms
Brahms: sublime genius on a major scale
Forget the sneering of Benjamin Britten, for whom Brahms’s music was “ugly and foul”, the German composer and pianist was a virtuoso talent whose best works burn with volcanic passion and seriousness of purpose
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Schrödinger’s sex binary
We have to resist the mass gaslighting of women and girls
My police stalker
What do you do when you are being targeted by someone within law enforcement?
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth