Everyday Lies
Lions led by donkeys
This tired cliché recently came to mind in a British hospital
Acronyms
Acronyms are one of the means by which bureaucracies hide or obfuscate what they do
Diego Maradona was not a victim
We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple
Capturing the wrong picture
Why bother with accuracy when you can get away with approximation?
Sins of omission
Taking statistics out of context is a dangerous games, says Theodore Dalrymple
Mission misstatements
What is at your core?
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
