Medicine
Why we love medical drama
The morbid and the erotic mingle in the portrayal of surgery
Let’s fix the nation’s smile
We must dig our teeth into the problem of getting people to dentists
The grim reality of assisted dying
Privileged supporters cannot seem to even understand the arguments against their case
“I’m afraid the news is not good …”
Our confidence in doctor diagnosis is sadly misplaced
The public health medicalisation of taking a punt
Moral panic about gambling addiction poses an existential threat to racing
The trouble with diagnosis-positive feminism
Taking women seriously about their health should not always mean trusting doctors
Reasons to be cheerful
A pessimist tries to summon up Christmas cheer
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards