Violence
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Lebanonisation in the UK
Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK
How can we talk about male violence now?
Our discourse should be a lot more honest and a lot more serious
Bedlam bingo
Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail
Please remember, terrorism is evil
Worrying numbers of people romanticise the brutality of those perceived as “oppressed”
What the BBC does not say about femicide in London
Racial disparities are evident among perpetrators as well as victims
Why civility matters, even when it’s hard
Swallowing our pride is better than political violence
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Devilishly good
Liszt: Faust Symphony (Bis)
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
Letters August-September
To paraphrase the Jeremy Corbyn defence, were the Tory Right present but not involved?
For realism, against Scottish nationalism
Progress depends on rejecting the delusions of independence
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
