Sexual Violence
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
She/her/or/else
No one should be forced to use preferred pronouns
Raped by the IRA
A traumatised victim was interrogated in secret by republicans, let down by a botched prosecution and smeared in the pages of the Guardian
Sterility as liberation
Sex positivity drains the erotic of existential meaning
Justice is not racist
Concerns about political correctness are preventing too many MPs from properly addressing the scandal of sex-grooming gangs
The angst of Eros
Debating porn over the decades
The meaning of rape
There is no case for expanding its definition
The dark side of fantasy
If you are outraged by Andrew Tate, why aren’t you outraged by online porn?
Punishing the innocent
Why must we shift the burden of responsibility for crime?
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
