Mental Health
Such sweet sorrow
Lent is an ideal time to take pleasure in a gentle, contemplative and very English strand of musical melancholia
Should puberty be optional?
Girls deserve a better deal growing up — but avoiding puberty isn’t the answer
The rise of the bimbo
Being intentionally thick is not a feminist act
Fear in a time of Covid
Manipulating public emotion is a dangerous and costly exercise
The silent treatment
Physical “conversion therapy” is already illegal, so any new sanctions will be aimed at criminalising conversations
The longest night of my life
Researchers should re-think prescribing magic mushrooms for depression
Tough love
What modern families are missing
The devil is in the detail
The assisted suicide bill has practical challenges to answer before it should convince us to start down a dangerous path
Neither marginalised, abused nor vulnerable
Debunking a persistent talking point in the trans rights campaign
Under the gun
Government to tally veteran suicides for the first time
Most Read
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
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library