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
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
