World Suicide Prevention Day
Suicide is suicide
Don’t be hoodwinked by euphemisms
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Britain has an industrial strategy, but it’s bad
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
