Michael Webberley
Childhood’s end
A medical vanguard aims to arm children against their own nature
The only way is up
It’s narrow, man, a narrow path to victory
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Sherlock Holmes and the BBC bias
Eamonn Holmes will get to the bottom of the mystery of what happened to his career
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
