sexual abuse
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
Coolness and cancellation
We should not just people with problematic pasts by how much we like their work
Beware the false victim
History shows the folly of insisting that certain classes of people can do no wrong
Naked stupidity
Blurring the boundaries between childhood and adult sexuality endangers children
Child sexual abuse and the seal of confession
New legislation will not help children
Women’s refuges should be exactly that
Biological males do not have a right to them
Don’t let politics obscure the horrors of grooming gangs
Just because a Tory said it doesn’t mean it’s not true
Oldham report shames us all
Victims were failed at every level — could there be more cases to come?
The wrong kind of victim
Today’s victimhood narratives don’t make space for the most vulnerable
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
