I was on trial for praying for free speech
I was acquitted — but I should never have been arrested
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
