Rape
The road to Hell is paved with arse-covering cowardice
Good intentions were not to blame for the failure to stop the grooming gangs
The establishment is still denying justice to the victims of grooming gangs
Institutional failures must be exposed and accounted for
Don’t exploit Gisèle Pelicot’s story
Her legal triumph should be the start and not the end of the reckoning
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre