Sex
Sex tips from Semele
Opera was the tinder of Renaissance Venice, says Robert Thicknesse
The real facts of life
A welcome intervention by an author determined to return some rationalism to the trans discussion
A little bit of curve
In praise of pop smut
J K Rowling is not transphobic
Is it transphobic to say women get periods? Don’t be daft, says Ella Whelan
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
