The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
The strange death of Cockney London
London’s white working class all but vanished, with little reporting or remark by press or politicians
The issue with the Big Issue
The transformation of Big Issue vendors and the war against noticing
How Britain could change course on mass migration
Imagining a positive respectability cascade
Minority appeal
Can right-wing parties win with ethnic minorities?
What’s the matter with women?
Perhaps they should be more like men
Britain’s mass immigration hangover
Like a true addict, we power through by increasing consumption
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
