Artillery Row
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
