Religion
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Sorry, not sorry
Sincere apologies require a shared set of values
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
Communitarianism hits the ballot box
The local elections provided a glimpse of a future where voting is divided by ethnicity
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
