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Nov 17, 2025
Margaret Atwood has a reputation for spookily accurate predictions about the future of humanity in her novels. This is quite strange, because — as her new memoir Book of Lives...
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Oct 14, 2025
The eternal truths of religion are having a moment. Church pews are filling up with newcomers. Gen Z is earnestly discussing demons and sedevacantism on social media. This...
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Aug 25, 2025
“Contains prolonged blackout, themes of ableism, addiction, blood, death, mental illness, transphobia and strong language.” Just another school night in some parts of...
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May 9, 2025
For the Catholic faithful, there are always opportunities to offer up suffering, and that includes listening to BBC commentators talking about the new pope. In the dead space between...
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Mar 21, 2025
When the Covid lockdown started, five years ago, many in the laptop classes leaned into the glorious social dislocation. They embraced Zoom. They took in home deliveries and forgot...
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Feb 21, 2025
In more good news for British universities, “woke waste” is now gaining traction in the UK media, and firmly in the firing line are mad-sounding research projects at the...
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Jan 31, 2025
Doomscrolling through the timeline this week, my eye was caught by an arresting headline. “I WAS A PASTOR. NOW I MAKE BANK ON ONLYFANS AND HAVE NEVER FELT MORE FULFILLED”...
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Jan 17, 2025
In the literary world this week, a hackneyed writing genre got an unexpected revival: the stern-faced #MeToo callout. Fearlessly exposing a famous person’s sexual impropriety...
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Jan 3, 2025
Remember those first moments of alcohol-fuelled exhilaration when you were young? The energy rising lightly in your solar plexus and making your cheeks ache from smiling; and how...
Nov 17, 2025Margaret Atwood has a reputation for spookily accurate predictions about the future of humanity in her novels. This is quite strange, because — as her new memoir Book of Lives...
Oct 14, 2025The eternal truths of religion are having a moment. Church pews are filling up with newcomers. Gen Z is earnestly discussing demons and sedevacantism on social media. This...
Aug 25, 2025“Contains prolonged blackout, themes of ableism, addiction, blood, death, mental illness, transphobia and strong language.” Just another school night in some parts of...
May 9, 2025For the Catholic faithful, there are always opportunities to offer up suffering, and that includes listening to BBC commentators talking about the new pope. In the dead space between...
Mar 21, 2025When the Covid lockdown started, five years ago, many in the laptop classes leaned into the glorious social dislocation. They embraced Zoom. They took in home deliveries and forgot...
Feb 21, 2025In more good news for British universities, “woke waste” is now gaining traction in the UK media, and firmly in the firing line are mad-sounding research projects at the...
Jan 31, 2025Doomscrolling through the timeline this week, my eye was caught by an arresting headline. “I WAS A PASTOR. NOW I MAKE BANK ON ONLYFANS AND HAVE NEVER FELT MORE FULFILLED”...
Jan 17, 2025In the literary world this week, a hackneyed writing genre got an unexpected revival: the stern-faced #MeToo callout. Fearlessly exposing a famous person’s sexual impropriety...
Jan 3, 2025Remember those first moments of alcohol-fuelled exhilaration when you were young? The energy rising lightly in your solar plexus and making your cheeks ache from smiling; and how...