Martin Vander Weyer
Martin Vander Weyer’s latest book is The Good, the Bad and the Greedy: Why We’ve Lost Faith in Capitalism.
The bank that grew fat on cocaine
Bespoke wealth management services were made available to some of the world’s nastiest criminals
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity