Podcast
American politics at the crossroads
And its short but bitter history
Britain and the Blob (w/ Poppy Coburn)
Where does the left have power?
The Revolution’s shadow
How did conflict affect British politics?
Not going to be ignored (w/ Victoria Smith)
On the demonisation of middle-aged women
Fielding Sterne questions
The novel world of English literature in the 1700s
Mission accomplished? (with Ben Sixsmith and Sebastian Milbank)
Assessing the Iraq War and its ongoing effects
Colonial expansion and industrial development
Did Britain’s 18th century colonies spur the Industrial Revolution?
Performance politics (with Lola Salem)
On the multi-pronged campaign against reality
The making of a multi-national state
What the Scots and Irish brought to Westminster
Every British politics podcast
Big brains and banter
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
