Lions led by donkeys
This tired cliché recently came to mind in a British hospital
French Fancies
Is the Navy really open to all?
Acronyms
Acronyms are one of the means by which bureaucracies hide or obfuscate what they do
On Lying
The line between dishonesty and stupidity can be difficult to spot
A correctional facility
Who, exactly, is being corrected by an execution?
World Class
On a phrase used by people with brains of tinsel
Graphs
By means of proper framing, graphs can lie like a parliamentary candidate
“Community”
Am I really part of the EasyJet community?
Ghost in the machine
Does the printer really “experience” anything?
Diego Maradona was not a victim
We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
