Bad Books
Read for pleasure
Against the functionalist approach to literature
The myth of infallibility
Dispiriting as it may be, great authors are capable of writing bad books
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
