Rudyard Kipling
Kipling and Sinatra in Burma
The words Kipling chose should not be cancelled even if Frank Sinatra had a bit too much fun with them
‘You’ll be a Man, my son!’
Rudyard Kipling’s (in)famous poem “If” reverberates with valuably relevant and humane advice for 2020 Britain
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
