Bobby McDonagh
The problem with Frost’s speech
Despite all the evidence, the UK assumes that the EU is acting in good faith
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
