Sex Trade
A gift to pimps and traffickers
South Africa still, in many ways, operates as an apartheid state
The deconstruction of women
Don’t misuse biology to hide the nature of sex
Women should not be for sale
We must challenge the Left’s view of prostitution as “progressive” and “sex work” as liberating
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics