Stress
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
