Obadiah Mbatang
Obadiah Mbatang is a British writer who tweets at @residentadviser
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power