Rights Radicalism
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
The idea of the countryside Pt. 2
English rural life in theory and practice Pt. 2
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
