Joseph Conrad
Virginia Woolf: Teflon goddess of the trivial
She was nasty, crude, racist and often a poor writer — so why is she revered?
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
Employees have the right to be gender-critical
The ICO’s gender diktats are indefensible
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
