The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
