What is geopolitics?
The origins of a contested concept
Glastonburied (w/ David Butterfield)
Can we keep live music alive?
The end of the line?
Arriving at our destination
Hitting the buffers — when rail fails
Bold projections and frustrating results
Rail riddles — the complex practicalities of rail travel
The realities of rail, from the US to China
Tracking modernity — trains in the modern world
On the complex realities of rail
The wisdom of gamekeepers (w/ Patrick Galbraith)
Deer, eels and Philip Larkin’s lawnmower
Beeching reconsidered
We must assess history before we judge it
Uni tunes (w/ Charlie Bentley-Astor)
Ideas that deserve discussion, not cancellation
Going loco — the development of modern rail
How rail became an engine of modernity
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
