Modern slavery
A catastrophic global human rights crisis
The abolition of the sex trade can’t come soon enough
BLM are right – Slavery is wrong
My manifesto to help Black Lives Matter beat slavery today
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
