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
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try to subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance