Mask Mandates
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
