Stress
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders