Trauma
What happened to horror films?
Watery idealism is robbing the genre of its fear
The dilution of trauma
Exaggerating emotional struggles weakens our resilience
Our kids need sad books
They appreciate beautiful melancholy
The pain gain
In today’s pop world trauma is an asset
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Anti-Christian bias is rife in Employment Tribunals
If you’re Christian, you can no longer count on a fair hearing in workplace disputes
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
