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
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
