Ethiopia
Keep your luxury hotels
It’s the cheap and cheerful taverns that offer a home for any traveller
Lapwings, Hyenas and Hares (Oh my!)
It’s amazing what you can encounter during an early morning jog
Why I’ve embraced Ethiopian spriss culture
A culture of mixing and fusing can serve us well in lockdown and the life beyond
The perils of mind-altering substances in the Horn of Africa
Stifled by bureaucratic governments, many chew through tonnes of khat
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
In defence of Elon Musk
Open debate might be messy but it is essential
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Up with expertise, down with experts
Politicians should be informed by experts but not led by them
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
