Truth
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Secrets and lies
The secrecy clause in the Gender Recognition Act is a big problem
Cancelling the soul
A culture of censoriousness is stifling our civic life
Orwell, Camus and truth
On honesty as an attitude
Human nature
We must understand our vices as well as our virtues
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
The truth about London Bridge
Flawed narratives should not distort historical memory of the planning for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
