Andrew Bailey
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
Capitalism in a time of coronavirus
The economy has shrunk by a fifth – so why is there no credit crunch this time?
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
