Foster Care
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing