Sam Smith
Unpeeling The Onion
How politics kills humour
Taking the piss
If you’re going to be provocative, people are going to be provoked
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
Eyes on a miserly prize
It’s not just owners who are being fleeced
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
