mothers
Misappropriating motherhood
La Leche League and the pornification of breastfeeding
Abuses of affirmation
Inside the communities of trans mums
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
