David Hume
Slaves to bad history
The battle for academic rigour at the home of the Scottish Enlightenment
Break a leg
Woke Oscars tries to cripple the film industry, Stonewall capture the police and the Scottish enlightenment is cancelled
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Disagree with this author? Racist!
Andrews’ view of the world is a fringe sliver of what ethnic minorities think about Britain
Row, row, row your boat
“The Boys On The Boat” is wholesome but unconvincing
Get religion or get lost
In an age of rising religious conflict, religious literacy is not an optional extra
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Good news is bad news for public health experts
It implies that there is no particular need to panic