Bryan Washington
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Artificially Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material is not a victimless crime
The often-raised theory that AI-CSAM is harmless or can even make children safer, must be quashed
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
A commanding life
Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius. By Iskander Rehman
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?