life
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
Journeys and generations
Life, for all its struggles, offers us the chance to be part of something glorious
Lifeless coaching
The rise of life coaches shows how little we understand life
Living well need not always mean living healthily
We should reject safetyism and embrace an uncomplicated zest for life
Could Esther Rantzen think twice on assisted suicide?
The gifts of life can be unexpected
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
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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
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities