Young People
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Remove the kid gloves
“Votes for 16-year-olds” has exposed our incoherent attitude towards young people
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
Why should young people join the Army?
It should hardly be surprising that recruitment and retention are too low
Leave Gen Z alone
The supposed laziness of young people has itself become a lazy trope
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
