F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Vladsby
Like Gatsby, Putin’s self-destructive nostalgia will be his undoing
Size isn’t necessarily substance
Gatsby aside, F. Scott Fitzgerald — the Jazz-Age chronicler — is dispensable
Why you don’t want to be an F Scott Fitzgerald flapper
What kind of world did F Scott Fitzgerald create for his heroines a century ago?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
