Thomas Becket
He being dead yet speaketh
Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power