J.R. Lucas
Smuggling Plato to Prague
Edward Lucas pays tribute to his father J.R. Lucas, Oxford philosopher and Cold War champion of the Czechs
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
