A very British series
Dr Who has succeeded because and not in spite of its limitations
Boys need books
The gendering of publishing has gone too far
Let children’s stories be children’s stories
We need more respect for the childhood imagination
Physical media matters
We can’t trust streaming services to archive entertainment
The Crown down under
Is Australia still a sceptered isle?
Our kids need sad books
They appreciate beautiful melancholy
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee
The last weird decade
We have lost the oddness of the 1990s
What lies ahead for the Australian election?
Labor’s Anthony Albanese might have a chance
Watching alone
How the internet killed pop culture
The music of the Bard
A great tradition of Shakespearean songs have been all but forgotten
From TV to the trans debate (w/ Graham Linehan)
Why truth and honour matter more than a quiet life
Buried roots of war
We have not remembered all the relevant facts about the conflict in Ukraine
The mate, mate, mate state
How managerialism absorbs masculinity
The government must deal with legal immigration
Small boats have not caused Britain’s record migration levels
Disposable vapes and the race to prohibition
The state should enforce existing rules, not ban disposable vapes
The BBC’s Insta-reality
The BBC should be more careful with its due diligence
Block votes and nutters
There was a time when the Labour conference really mattered, before it became a stage-managed platform for social media hits and soundbites
What does philosophy matter?
Philosophy is essential to our modern times, but it can also be dangerous
Scottish silliness on sex
A new ruling on gender and sex is ridiculous, but not all bad news
The study and the slaughter
Geopolitics as a rhetoric of power
