Victimhood
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
The wrong kind of victim
Today’s victimhood narratives don’t make space for the most vulnerable
October 2021: Letters to the Editor
The only people I have seen trying to eliminate biological sex are third-wave feminists
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
