Blanche Girouard
Flying high
Peter Stanford grew up with a benevolent notion of angels. But the true picture is complicated: while some angels in the Bible are kindly, others are brutal
“You’re really a man, aren’t you?”
‘All my life I have been accused of being masculine. “You’re really a man, aren’t you?” one particularly unpleasant ex-boyfriend joked.’
Bloody scandal
In the 1970s and ’80s, the NHS treated haemophiliacs with contaminated blood-clotting products. The public inquiry into that scandal is only just being set up
School sex ordeals
Sexual harassment is happening in schools and universities across the country. With all our concern about victims of the past, let’s not overlook the present
Sacrificial lamb
Tim Farron’s resignation shows the cost of admitting to religious views in a liberal, secular society
Feigned Intimacy
Why can’t Tim Farron just leave me alone?
Will the green agenda be killed off by the pandemic?
‘Will the green agenda be killed off by the longer-term coronavirus recovery? Or might the closure of so much business, and the cleaner air that results from planes not flying and factories not working, give us extra years to gain control of our environment?’
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
Music’s in the house
Rappers have found a role in lockdown: chronicling coronavirus with topical tunes. Most people, though, are rushing to the safety of the past