Gender Activism
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
The art world must escape gender theory
Grim, irrational ideas still dominate the Arts
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
