offence
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
I reserve the right to upset you
Only idiots think we should succumb to the special pleading of intolerant majorities
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
