Walter Sickert
The life-long genius of Sickert
There is more to the artist than the Camden Town years of his most famous paintings
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
The sad decline of London pubs
Or, why the hell can I not get a drink after 9?
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging