How I used to love and now hate the London Review of Books
Speaking words of wisdom, LRB
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
The cowards, the pretenders and the woman-haters
Awkwardness is no excuse for not supporting the gender-critical cause
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history