Hassan Mamdani
Hassan Mamdani is a scientist, artist and tech geek. He is gay not “queer”.
Gays against the conversion therapy ban
Gay men oppose these proposals not in spite of being gay, but because they are gay
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Lords of the wrestling ring
Professional wrestling podcasts have become almost as popular as wrestling itself
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness