Mark Mason
Mark Mason writes, leads walking tours and runs team-building sessions revolving around magic tricks. He tweets at @WalkTheLinesLDN
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated