Armin Laschet
The strange death of the CDU
The decline of Angela Merkel’s party may return Germany to a Weimar-style splintered parliament
Armin Laschet, Germany’s next Chancellor: Pro-China, Pro-Putin, Pro-Assad?
As China rises and Russia rattles its sabre, the Germans will hope that the younger generation have as much ease learning Mandarin as Merkel’s generation did English
Let’s change the cultural meaning of the penis
Our genitals do not entitle us to anything
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
