Ed West
Free speech is for losers
Everyone loves free speech when their side isn’t in power
Blown fusionism: is a common enemy enough?
Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds