consent culture
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
A butterfly on an operating table
The abstraction of desire achieves nothing
The progressive war on sex
New norms around “consent” are aimed at destroying the miracle of intimacy
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
The virtues of complaint
There’s nothing anti-feminist about female complaint
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Night of the ghost fascism
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested?
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
