Ben Scallan
Ben Scallan is a commentator and presenter for Gript media. He tweets at @ben_scallan
Ireland’s political stagnation
Ireland is stuck in political stalemate, with few viable alternatives on offer
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas