EJ Hobsbawm
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
The paper tiger and the Russian bear
NATO’s naive and supine response will not drive Putin’s army from Ukraine and emboldens Moscow still further
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
