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The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
