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
NHS propaganda
No rainbow-painting child could possibly understand the relative performance, good or bad, of the NHS
Public spending and public health
Theodore Dalrymple says the connection between expenditure and result is extremely tenuous
Lies of the British Medical Journal
The thirst for power that hides behind diversity
Capturing the wrong picture
Why bother with accuracy when you can get away with approximation?
Online banking’s ‘great service’
Dealing with your bank online makes the Labyrinth seem like a Roman Road
The sanctification of George Floyd
Being killed by a brutal policeman does not change a man’s life from bad to good
Britain’s George Floyd protesters exude the stench of humbug
The London demonstrators want to feel good without having to behave well
Death: a walk in the park
Everyday lies with Theodore Dalrymple
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
