Cars
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
How the DVSA is driving young people mad
Driving tests should be much more accessible than they are
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
A nation of motorists
Metropolitan journalists do not appreciate how the nation travels
The sorcerer of speed
Stirling Moss performed almost supernaturally
Enough to drive you insane
The driving test logjam is a depressing symptom of national dysfunction
The men who hate cars
I’ve had enough of White Paper Mansplainers
The war on cars
LTNs are ruining LDN
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
