Platonic Love
Are men losing the chance to love other men?
The modern trend to write off male camaraderie as “bromance” is doing great harm to young men
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
