Greek History
Calling bullshit on “The Marbles”
A new documentary about the Elgin Marbles offers cinematic skill and historical bias
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”