Letter from Budapest
Tibor Fischer discovers the first of many Roger Scruton cafés
Mystery of the clicking keyboard
Out of the Ether is an excellent primer on Ethereum, but the general reader might find the minutiae a bit much
Hajdúszoboszló on my mind
Tibor Fischer in Budapest muses on Hungary’s fractious political alliance
Big Brother versus liberty
Firmin DeBrabander’s philosophical musings are the checklist of a left-wing, “progressive” academic
Intellectual Red Bull
László Földényi’s essays are a collection that will leave you feeling sharp and more cultured, says Tibor Fischer
Wild ride for the Bitcoin billionaires
Cryptocurrencies have gone from geek heaven to serious business
American psychos
Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
Of mice and writing advice
Tibor Fischer reviews Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
Closet hippy of the SAS
Billingham is tight-lipped about his time in the SAS. His work afterwards provides the funniest anecdotes
Latin hero of love-torn teenagers
Tibor Fischer reviews A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
