Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
All aboard the ship of self-improvement
Why did NYU withdraw its support before the Floating University had left port?
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
