On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Actor James Dreyfus joins Jo Bartosch to discuss the gender wars, cancel culture and the stifling of individuality in art.
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A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Uni tunes (w/ Charlie Bentley-Astor)
Ideas that deserve discussion, not cancellation
The making of an energy horror story (w/ James McSweeney)
Grab some popcorn and prepare to scream
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Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
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The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
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When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
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The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
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Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests