Ideas
An election without ideas
We need intellectual substance, not just idle gossip
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
