The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
Twists of the tongue
When competing languages collide, demography eventually supersedes prestige
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
A stern telling-off
Rachel Reeves has had enough of these misbehaving Tories
The Greens are worse than useless
Their reputation for being nice if a touch naive is far too generous
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
The gender wars have not been won
“No debate” has been defeated — but the debate is still ongoing
Equality for some
Labour’s is continuing a misguided approach to DEI
28 hours later
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been infected with the deadly Rage Virus
Why levelling up failed
We must think local in order to foster growth
“Forced”
Here they walk, they can do no other
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
The UPF panic is a fad
Chris van Tulleken cannot seem to decide what an ultra-processed food even is
