Media
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
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
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
