mental illness
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Valdo Calocane should not have been free to kill
British institutions failed his victims time and again
It is right to question psychiatry
A new book makes a brave attempt to confront the abuses of psychiatric treatment
Gregg Wallace and the problem of the diagnostic label defence
We need more careful thought about the interactions between mental and neurodevelopmental conditions and misbehaviour
Children shouldn’t fear their feelings
We should be more sceptical about mental health discourse
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
Addicted in art
What role should suffering play in creativity and the consumption of art?
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed