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How we fell for antidepressants
The French novelist, Michel Houellebecq, with his accustomed acuity about modern culture, titled his last novel but one Serotonin. By…
Thatcherism is a cult the Tories should not follow
Friedrich Nietzsche may not be the most fashionable member of the conservative canon, but doubtless he wouldn’t care much. He…
The strange morality of sponsoring weapons
Forget fund-raising concerts donating spare clothes and offering your spare room to a refugee family. There’s a better way of…
Don’t write off Michael Gove
No senior politician has ever possessed a talent for upsetting prime ministers to match that of Michael Gove’s. David Cameron…
It’s time to lift the medical student cap
Gaining a place in medical school has always been a lottery, made even more difficult for aspiring doctors this year.…
How Ukraine is sabotaging Russia’s army
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SOF) or possibly partisan fighters have conducted successfully attacks on three significant targets in occupied Crimea…
Cultural appropriation has killed modern music
It’s a rule of life that adults shouldn’t understand young people’s music, ever since Little Richard made the old folk…
DeSantis has started his presidential campaign tour
Pittsburgh Fresh off the campaign stage in Arizona, where he stumped for gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, Florida governor Ron DeSantis…
No, 44 percent of pregnant women didn’t miscarry after the Pfizer shot
Feminist author “Dr.” Naomi Wolf is making the rounds with a bombastic new claim that nearly half of pregnant women…
Donald Trump has enemies everywhere
I think that Michael Anton is correct that “the people who really run the United States of America have made it clear…
The gender debate is getting nastier
Elaine Miller is one of the grown-ups. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, with a specialism…
Can Zelensky afford to freeze Ukraine’s gas prices?
This morning, Volodymyr Zelensky signed a moratorium on energy prices – so while gas bills are rising all over Europe,…
What’s to blame for the surge in excess deaths?
From the beginning, the debate over lockdowns was skewed by the fact that Covid deaths were imminent – and any…
Salman Rushdie was never safe
The stabbing of Salman Rushdie sends a renewed message to the world: take Islamism – the transformation of the Islamic…
The growing extremism of France’s eco warriors
In August 1999 a group of protestors demolished a McDonald’s restaurant under construction in Aveyron, southern France. Their leader was…
The unedifying Afghan blame game
A year ago we scuttled out of Afghanistan. We abandoned the aim we and the Americans had proclaimed so noisily…
I regret my promiscuity
Upon opening Louise Perry’s new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century,…
Is the housing bubble about to burst?
There are so many house indices that they can create confusion. Last week, the Halifax house price index showed a…
Amol Rajan's University Challenge disaster
Congratulations to Amol Rajan, who adds the mantle of University Challenge host to his burgeoning portfolio of BBC jobs. Rajan…
The EU’s bullying behaviour over the Horizon programme
You wouldn’t normally electrify the world with a press release detailing a formal UK legal demand for discussions and possible…
In defence of Sanna Marin, Finland's partying PM
Party politics is done somewhat differently in Finland. While Boris was hounded out in Westminster for some miserable looking cake…
Jeremy Clarkson should be the next host of University Challenge
The bad news of the week is that Jeremy Paxman is retiring from University Challenge. The worse is that most…
The Chinese spy ship and the dangers of debt-trap diplomacy
A Chinese spy ship that docked in Sri Lanka on Tuesday in defiance of Indian and western protests is the…
Spare a thought for the A level class of 2022
If you have an 18-year-old in your life, as I do, or even if you vaguely know of one, please…
Can Israelis trust the UN?
You probably think you’ve heard every story there is to hear about people getting fired over their tweets. Well, here’s…
