Booby-traps
Should booby-traps be legal?
When the state fails to protect us many want to act themselves
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Hot air strikes (again)
The Prime Minister was sending a message, but it hasn’t been received
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
