Jokes
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
