Morality
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
Some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Confessions of a Woke Catholic
How to live with the contradictions of identity and belief
A genius who could say “no”
The things Beethoven never did
Lost in the Moral Maze
What is kindness, and is it the highest of virtues?
Obstacle courts
Who benefited from prolonging the Battersbee case?
The real benefits of loyalty and order
Evocation of a more hopeful culture lost is both the book’s strength and weakness
Our moral language is not okay
The triumph of emotivism
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
Why did the Eye look away?
Surely a title known for investigative journalism would be concerned by a series of trans scandals
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
Post election rundown
Three very sleepy men discuss the election result
Fined over facts?
Financial censorship is not the right way to confront the AfD
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Sweet vengeance could turn sour
Anti-Conservative right-wingers should be careful what they wish for
At least somebody’s having fun
Ed Davey grows more cheerful the sadder Rishi Sunak gets
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
