Entertainment
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Podcasters: do as I say, not as I do
Sometimes the best advice is simply not to go on a podcast
Stewart Lee is wrong about comedy and censorship
Despite the awfulness of much “anti-woke” comedy, opponents of political correctness have a point
Lords of the wrestling ring
Professional wrestling podcasts have become almost as popular as wrestling itself
Living in the 80s
Did popular culture peak four decades ago?
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
The eyes of the law
The argument over VAR remains unsettled
Up for the cup
Hoping for a golfing renaissance in Rome
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies