Trigger Warning
Content warning
On triggering opera and Arts Council England
The gift and curse of language
It separates us from the animals – and the angels
Is it art – or a trigger warning?
Once, the establishment might have left the unsavoury implications to the viewer’s own intelligence
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Being economical with the truth
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life). By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
No room for reform?
We should hope that even the worst people can change
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
