Entertainment
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
Physical media matters
We can’t trust streaming services to archive entertainment
Are you not entertained?
The emptiness of popular culture
The TV boss who decides what you watch
Or does he?
Time’s Arrows
The pure, unappreciated entertainment of darts
Top of the pops?
What makes great rock and roll
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
A judicial defence of religious liberty is long overdue
Christians should not be discriminated against because of their religious beliefs
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
