Psychology
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
A cruel choice
Today’s euthanasia bill risks sending Britain down a dark path
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
