Pederasty
Michel Foucault: the prophet of pederasty
Daniel Johnson says the fact that Foucault scholars now overlook his advocacy for sex with boys shows the great libertine failed to overturn Judaeo-Christian morality
Why drag is not the same as pantomime
In pantomime, we know that people are pretending
The rights of the child?
A Scottish bill is importing radical progressive politics in the name of protecting children
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
We have to be more precise about progress
What sort of progress do we want, and how are we going to get it?
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes