Elites
The failure of normative power
You can’t always legislate around disagreement
The suffocating blandness of elite fashion
Leaders should dress like leaders
The men who hate cars
I’ve had enough of White Paper Mansplainers
The BBC has a “poor people” problem
The broadcaster is obsessed with trying to reach an audience it doesn’t understand
Why standards matter
Take off your trainers, Mr Peston
Our pagan forebears deserve more respect
At least they had a grip on human nature
How I used to love and now hate the London Review of Books
Speaking words of wisdom, LRB
Bromides of the expert class
Question intellectual authority
Democracy without a demos
We have to overcome post-1989 illusions
Notes from a client kingdom
Britain is a sad sunless satrapy of the American empire
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
Real pond life
There is a simple way to foster biodiversity
Keir has much to fear
Keir Starmer should enjoy the election campaign because he may not enjoy the demands of power
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
My police stalker
What do you do when you are being targeted by someone within law enforcement?
May letters
We are in grave danger of losing our musical marbles
Imagine there’s no Labour
It’s easy if you try
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
Hungary: treading a fine line
Can it stay equidistant from the great powers while maintaining trade connectivity?
What Trump gets right about NATO
There needs to be a shifting in the balance of responsibility from America to Europe
