Reaction
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement