For realism, against Scottish nationalism
Progress depends on rejecting the delusions of independence
Averting the pubocalypse
We could lose the soul of Britain
How to nix the nats
Governments should stop indulging the SNP
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse