Eric Gill
O blind new world
Behind modernity’s moralistic exhortations lies a cold-blooded mania for total control
Man’s best friend
Eric Gill was an awful man — but that doesn’t make his art any less brilliant
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability