Chris Bayliss
Chris Bayliss is an independent consultant whose main interest is the energy sector in Iraq. He tweets at @baylissbaghdad
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance