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
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
