American Football
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Payton’s place as an icon
Sweet dreams are made of this
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Centre for a vassal state
Why is a think tank dedicated to “Inclusive Trade” trying to tie the UK to EU imports?
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
