Journalism
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
The dark future of free media in Europe
A French news channel has been fined for airing unchallenged negative views about migration and climate change
The BBC can be a drag
The priorities of its reporting, especially on gender issues, can be absurd
Terrible beauty
Does the World Press know what constitutes photojournalism?
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
Prophetic warnings
Error is the joy of pedants, be the error serious or trivial
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Dancing with ghosts
A journey into the ABBA: Voyage experience
Russian to judgement
Russia watchers are the real useful idiots
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
