Trigger Warning
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
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
The blame game
Some terrible villain has made the Conservative Party unpopular. But who could it be?
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try and subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
Why the election was good for Unionism
A diversity of voices will help rather than hinder the cause
Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
Europe invaded
We must heed the warnings from Hungary and Poland about migration
Woke invades the sciences
The intrusion of irrational ideology is distorting and censoring science