Haile Selassie
What a piece of work is man
Anna Della Subin’s new book explores how leaders become Gods
What does Black Lives Matter mean for Africa?
BLM have few words for the continent with the largest number of vulnerable black lives
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
