Democracy
Homeostasis and the death of politics
Ignore feedback mechanisms at your peril
Whataboutmeism
British politics is afflicted by a hatred of normality
The end of German stability?
Years of complacency has seen right wing populism surge in the holy land of centrism
The uncivil service (w/ Radomir Tylecote)
Is Britain becoming a synthetic democracy?
Ruins of the African Renaissance
Yoweri Museveni was once hailed in Washington
Cosmetic democracy
Britain’s new system of government
The miracle of the Constitution
On 3 May 1791, Poland became the cradle of constitutionalism in continental Europe
United in hatred
America’s crisis of legitimacy
The real threat to Israeli democracy
How is it “undemocratic” to tilt power towards elected representatives?
On British chumocracy
Playing Six Degrees of Petronella Wyatt
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
