Ada Palmer
Michelangelo and all that
A well-informed and surprisingly readable book
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Lorna May Wadsworth
Lorna May Wadsworth
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Rakes, ruin and refinement
Peter Glanz’s Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Tinker Bell, Puck, Dobby & Co.
An account of everything even the most dedicated fairy-follower could want to discover
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead