Elites
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
Extinction Rebellion, handmaiden of technocracy
There’s nothing natural about the environmentalism of modern eco activists
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
