Mental Health
You can criticise comedy without cancelling it
Ricky Gervais should ask himself who he is satirising and why
The spectre of suicide
Against the weaponisation of youthful suffering
A minister for men?
A pointless non-job for the boys
The mate, mate, mate state
How managerialism absorbs masculinity
Is Britney Spears really okay?
She doesn’t look as if she is “living her best life”
The Gen Z abortion crisis
The sad causes and consequences of a rise in abortion among young people
Power, politics and mental illness
Our mental health discourse is deeply hypocritical
Excessive expectations
On writers and mental health
Mental healthing ourselves to death
Our discourse has brought more confusion than clarity
What’s the matter with women?
Perhaps they should be more like men
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured