Joe Manchin
Scare talk on steroids
The Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric about the return of Jim Crow laws risks derailing their voting rights legislation
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
