Life has become the avoidance of death
In the continual absence of metaphysics, life – shaped for many years by the pursuit of comfort – is now defined by the avoidance of death.
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave