Artillery Row
An economic peasants’ revolt?
ARC provided a platform to a vital dissident message, but it needs to lose the dead weight of discredited ideas
A load of hot air (w/ Barry Norris)
Why wind power cannot meet our needs
Against ideas
We have too many of them and they are not doing any good
Why they hate the LGB Alliance
It is about politics, not about people
The evils of Panglossian prohibitionism
Banning the sale of tobacco would increase the black market in cigarettes
The true, the good and the beautiful
We have to redirect Western civilisation
The art world is eating itself
A culture of censorship has devolved into rival attempts at cancellation
The right to protest is not absolute
Freedom to protest should by constrained by freedom from violence
Crushing hope
Assisted dying for mental illness forces a dangerous shift in our understanding mental illness
Keeping the beaches open
What did we learn about Boris Johnson’s COVID response from Didactic Dom?
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
