Mythology
The empty gap
The meaning of the felling of the Sycamore Gap
Tolkien, 50 years on
The true scale of his legacy is gradually becoming apparent
A toast to C.S. Lewis
A poet of the human soul
Goodbye to the Gorgoneion
Can we invent myths or are they what make us what we are?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech