Kindness
The happy-clappy compassion mask
Ewa and Mateusz Dymek say cruelty is being masked by compassion
Mission misstatements
What is at your core?
In defence of centrist dads
Tom Tugendhat was a man for the hour
Should the police censor music?
Drill music presents itself as the soundtrack of liberation, but it’s dangerously mired in gang violence
The game is not the season
On the nature of the Blob
Murders for July
The good, the beautiful and the grotesque
From RP to cock-er-ney
Why can’t politicians be themselves?
Tube strikes aren’t socialist
Why do so many on the Left back poor quality public services?
Old tunes remastered
Penny, Liz and Boris — still rocking the political moshpit
Getting wrecked
Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it
How do you solve a problem like the protocol?
The apotheosis of Johnsonism
The gendrification of Ireland
How gender identity theory has become embedded in Irish society
’Verse averse
The idea that there are multiple universes and that it might be possible to “‘versejump” is surely one way of explaining the cinematic urge