Podcast
Writing the world to rights (w/ Jo Bartosch)
Making a difference from your desk
Across the universe
How railways conquered the world
Hope for helots? (w/ Tom Jones)
It is no surprise that the young are disaffected
Tracks across America
Rail and the development of the USA
Atlantic to Pacific
Travelling across Italy and the United States
Steam powering progress
How Victorian railways were the engine of modern technologies
At full steam
The birth of British railways
The door of no return
Slavery and reparations in the 21st century
London calling
The decline of our capital
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
