Founder’s Day
The King is our eternal everyman
Oak Apple Day celebrates the inevitable return of the primordial and the perennial
Live not by kayfabe
The dark side of professional wrestling is the dark side of institutional life
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Blurred thin blue lines (w/ Lisa Townsend)
How ideology can interfere with policing
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
Good news is bad news for public health experts
It implies that there is no particular need to panic
Masterful pianism
Bartok, Janacek, Szymanowski (Warner)
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes