Boris Johnson
Who won the party leaders’ Question Time?
The PM came on one-and-a-half hours into the interrogation, by which stage some may have tuned out
The laughometer at the leaders’ debate
The issue being dodged by both Johnson and Corbyn was trust. Principally, the lack of it
Do Prime Ministers lose their seats?
There is no special place in the British electoral system for party leaders
Boris’s pudding without a theme
The Prime Minister made a muddled start to the election campaign
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
