Sex
The next age of prude
Could Billie Eilish lead a mainstream pushback against the excesses of 2010s “choice feminism”?
Walking a tightrope, tying themselves in knots
The Welsh Government’s new sex education curriculum is not fit for purpose
Stonewall finally accept debate
Middle Temple made history with its LGBTQ+ forum
Advocates who brook no dissent
Narcissistic identity politics perpetuates that other people are dangerous things that require controlling by activists who “get it”
Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
The Welsh variant
Why is Cardiff actively spreading queer theory in schools?
Is this the end of monogamy as we know it?
As couples move away from the traditional binds of marriage, Julie Bindel wonders whether heterosexuals are soon to become the new sexual outlaws
More sad than naughty
A BDSM book by a group keen to challenge gender norms is oddly conventional
Kisses in the dark
Choose ambience over aphrodisiacs for Valentine’s Day says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Rise of the sex robots
Moral boundaries are being eroded by the rise of sex robots that claim to be “the perfect companion”
Count the cost
The government is running out of time to stop messing up
Sex is not a human right
The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is no obligation on the State to allow the purchase of sex without criminal sanction
On Solzhenitsyn’s shoulders
The great writer’s intellectual heirs warn that collective rights obscure individual suffering
The drug war’s Neville Chamberlain
Decriminalising cannabis is the last thing London’s young people need
Why we must remember
The notion that freedom comes at a price seems to be one that escapes us
An inconvenient truth
Certain crimes are dominated by certain people
The catalogues of Christmas past
The great London department store Gamages was the British Amazon of its day
O blind new world
Behind modernity’s moralistic exhortations lies a cold-blooded mania for total control
Festive frostiness
Claudia Savage Gore feels a chill around the kitchen island
Throwing good money after bad
Spare us the spectacle of incredible claims to reform criminal drug-users by showering them with more public sector love
That was then, this is now
It’s a kindness of friends not to look at what we’re doing