Pubs
Christmas drinks
Fergus Butler-Gallie blesses that which unites church and pub
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging