The notion that guns serve as phallic implements (and thus tokens of masculinity) is about as old as it is obvious. ("Consider your man card re-issued," read a recent gun ad.) But the idea that gun ...

Another day, another announcement of the results of the independent reviews that seem to have become the hallmark of the Starmer Labour government. This time, it is about prison reform and how to deal ...

In the extensive catalogue of cruelty that humans have inflicted on others, castration surely occupies a special place, not least because permanent sterilization is the outcome. As in all other male ...