Archives
Lucy Letby and the exploitation of tragedy
Must everything be absorbed by the discourse?
The rise and fall of Prigozhin
How Wagner came down to earth
The end of the line?
Arriving at our destination
Polish lessons for Ukrainian reconstruction
What can the Ukrainians learn from post-war Warsaw?
Where are the Parkies of tomorrow?
In a risk averse world of fakes and phonies, the ever-authentic Sir Michael Parkinson is sorely missed
The crisis we ignore
Armenians are in danger as the world looks the other way
All action, no abstraction
On the hunks and lunks who dominated two decades of Hollywood
Hating The Hundred
Why do cricketing authorities think we’re stupid?
When the left loves billionaires
Why does only right-wing funding count as “dark money”?
Power, politics and mental illness
Our mental health discourse is deeply hypocritical
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Eyes on a miserly prize
It’s not just owners who are being fleeced
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Ethnic identity is fine, as long as you’re not English
In the corridors of power, every ethnic grievance is welcome — except for the concerns of the English
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
