Dali Yang
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
