Goethe
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Deeply erudite yet highly readable, laying many myths to rest
Goethe, a man of ideas
Even to list the academic fields in which he was a pioneer is exhausting
Twin totems of Teutonic angst
The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive