The asexual revolution
Who could have foreseen that half a century after the sexual revolution we’d be facing its exact opposite: an asexual…
Why send children to therapy?
I’ve been reading a book by the American journalist Abigail Shrier – Bad Therapy – which describes just how demented…
The ‘luxury beliefs’ that harm vulnerable children
Now that everyone insists that the oppressed must be lifted up – or platformed, if you’re that way inclined: why…
Are smartphones making us care less about humanity?
Generation Z were the first to grow up attached to smartphones. They spent their adolescence bathed in screen-light and now…
I regret not having more children
Life doesn’t always work out perfectly. You can make the wrong decisions. You can leave things too late. I wish,…
Mexico’s progressive hell
Every morning I check to see if Rodrigo Iván Cortés has published the ‘apology’ that the court in Mexico has…
Dog ice-cream: proof we’ve lost our minds
During the few hot days we had in June, I came across my first tub of dog ice-cream nestled among…
You don’t need to ‘Queer’ the Mary Rose
I have an idea for the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth. My idea is for a Mary Rose Ultimate Experience…
The dangerous cult of ‘toxic parents’
Complaining about ‘toxic parents’ has been a viral hit on TikTok with videos on the topic racking up several billion…
‘There is no plan! You’re on your own!’
The first LNER train I booked on Sunday from Durham to London was cancelled due to ‘action short of a…
A narcissist eyes up the White House
Back in the late 1990s, when I lived in Dallas, Texas, I became fascinated by television evangelists. They were hucksters…
Why I hate drones
I have a plan for my old age. Now that we all might live for a century or so, feeling…
Is this why so many kids are trans?
If we rule out the notion that people have ‘gendered souls’ at odds with their biological sex – and we…
Generation isolation
Dr Jean Twenge on why teenagers are so unhappy
Anthropomorphism will be our downfall
On the smooth marble concourse by the exit doors at Heathrow Airport I met my first cleaning robot. It was…
Why I’ve come to think the NHS is broken
I was having tea with my neighbour in her second-floor flat when a man, a stranger, appeared in the room.…
