Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Reflections on the rubble of the ancients
An enthusiasm for ruins is far from universal
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked