Joseph Mazur
Time flies, relatively speaking
The older you are, the quicker you count out a minute
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism