#BelieveWomen
Pretty prose and ugly reality
Review: “Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World” by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul