Archives
Politics is not downstream from culture
Against Top Gear conservatism
Against baby factories
The individual family protects us from state power
What are historians for?
Contemporary commentary or timeless reflection?
In a poet’s footsteps
A trip to Ted Hughes’s “loneliest place”
Jeremy Clarkson is yesterday’s sexist
It’s too easy to focus on the Top Gear host
Two cheers for YIMBYs
More housing is needed — but there are costs as well
What to do about Evil
How was Damien Bendall free to kill?
Sturgeon turns her back on women
Women will not forgive her but we will fight on
Wheel of fortune
Are the fine margins that win championships and make careers all down to luck?
The authoritarianism stalking Ireland
A secular clerisy is silencing dissent
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
