James Harding
James Harding is an education specialist who has been a regular visitor to Transylvania since 2000
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones