Morality
Ignoring race won’t help anything
The dangers of pathological altruism
Bestiality is worse than eating meat
Tom Chivers is wrong about having sex with animals
What does AI’s possibility make us think about ourselves?
The real moral danger of ‘artificial intelligence’ is not what you think it is
Beware the shaming and guilt-tripping bingefest
Events in the US have led to a(nother) moment of reckoning for race relations spawning a similar gamut of emotions, some justified, other less so
Jane’s profound piety
Jeremy Black reviews Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics, by Tom Keymer
The language of Conservative priorities
Why does Boris want marriage to be a contract-at-will?
The Idea of a twenty-first century University
Newman’s Idea of The University imagined by Jeremy Black and William Gibson for the modern world
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
