Podcast
Uni tunes (w/ Charlie Bentley-Astor)
Ideas that deserve discussion, not cancellation
Going loco — the development of modern rail
How rail became an engine of modernity
Travel and terror — trains in World War Two
From the Western Front to the Holocaust
Out of the Ashes (w/ Nick Timothy)
Will England triumph in 2023?
Between two superpowers
Rail in the development of the USA and the Soviet Union
Blood on the tracks — rail transport between the wars
A golden age of trains, before a dark age for the world
The making of an energy horror story (w/ James McSweeney)
Grab some popcorn and prepare to scream
The rail war
From Belarus to Belgium WWI was a war enabled by the steam train
Defenestrating a feminist filmmaker (w/ Vaishnavi Sundar)
Trans debates have erupted in India as well
The uncivil service (w/ Radomir Tylecote)
Is Britain becoming a synthetic democracy?
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
