Quackery via cartography
You better believe the earth is flat
A new refuge for controversial ideas is an indictment of academia
In a better world, the Journal of Controversial Ideas wouldn’t need to exist
“There’s trouble at t’lab”
Stuart Ritchie’s ‘Science Fictions’ reveals a scholar committed not only to his own discipline but to the wider principles underlying all intellectual endeavour
Learning from the past
Much of Wisdom of the Ancients makes one appreciate how we get sidetracked by so much trivial nonsense
Reality has been Cancelled
Helen Dale reviews Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
The fascinating objects of fascism
Roger Moorhouse shows it’s possible to treat modern history properly and in context
Conspiracies in the time of Coronavirus
It’s long been my view that, if only Twitter voted, David Icke would be Prime Minister
Blessed are the geeks
The San Francisco Bay Area is short on solutions to old problems
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
