Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine