Topic: Theodore Dalrymple

The dark side of sentimentality

Mom and apple pie. Dogs and cats. Weddings and babies. God and country.. . These are just some of the things about which people become...
From Ignatius Insight The author Dr. Theodore Dalrymple (the pen name of Anthony Daniels), who worked for many years in Britain as a prison doctor...
If you were listening to the charts at the time when the Beastie Boys released their song (You gotta) fight for your right (to party) then you left your teenage years behind you some time ago. Some of it was extremely useful ...
Theodore Dalrymple admits that he's a huge snob about sports fans. Here he is decrying the French (he lives in France, a British expat) for going to pieces over the abject and shameful failure of their national soccer team in the ...

Local efforts can make society childfriendly

The author reflects on the relevance of the leadership from central and local government in changing attitudes and improving a positive space for children, young people and families in Great Britain. She reveals that the Enfield Council launched the Community Help Point ...

Talking cold turkey

As Theodore Dalrymple says, the objective signs of heroin withdrawal are modest compared to alcohol (10 January); but the (subjective) symptoms are more severe. For more than 25 years I have been responsible for an alcohol and drug detoxification centre which uses ...

The Grand Old Party

Sir: Theodore Dalrymple (Global Warning, 15 November) is not alone in being annoyed by incomprehensible acronyms. There James Forsyth, in an article about American politics, refers to the 'GOP', without giving any clue as to what this strange acronym means. T. Roberts ...

How to live

From Professor Robin Jacoby Sir: As a psychiatrist who has written reports in more than 30 homicide cases, I can wholeheartedly confirm Theodore Dalrymple's thesis that the majority of murderers are unfit for life ('Murder mystery', 7 January). Robin Jacoby Department ...

False Apology Syndrome

A physician by profession, Theodore Dalrymple has diagnosed one of the most public ills of our age -- " As Dalrymple points out, Australia and the Vatican have also been involved. Dalrymple argues further that the practice of apologizing for what ancestors or predecessors ...

A brutish term

The latest example came in Theodore Dalrymple's rant (Global warning, 7 June). No doubt these young women do not represent the flower of English womanhood -- but 'sluts'? The coarse aggressiveness of the term, unimaginable from the pens of Paul Johnson or ...