Kindness
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Lost in the Moral Maze
What is kindness, and is it the highest of virtues?
The happy-clappy compassion mask
Ewa and Mateusz Dymek say cruelty is being masked by compassion
Mission misstatements
What is at your core?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale