Authoritarianism
The letters of the law
When did we delude ourselves that offence should be a crime?
COVID Estrangement Syndrome
How to deal with creeping authoritarianism
The police have a posting problem
Social media can create institutional damage
The meaning of Jacinda Ardern
Expect soggy authoritarianism from elite darlings
Reviving the inner anarchist
A new series shows Britain sliding into authoritarianism. Sound familiar?
The dictionary of the demagogues
In the dictionary of the demagogues there is only a single word: obey
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
Arsonists in the Attic
The liberals betrayed the very civilisation they were charged to defend
Neofeudalism and its new legitimisers
Today’s oligarchs depend on a modern, overwhelmingly liberal clerisy for legitimacy
The coronavirus cure for global populism?
How the pandemic exposed some leaders’ bluster and might yet undermine authoritarian regimes
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
