creativity
Addicted in art
What role should suffering play in creativity and the consumption of art?
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Retro Rodrigo is primo
A new nostalgia listening to GUTS
Art does not exist to improve society
We should resist the cultural reductionism of the modern “creative industries”
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
