Magi
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
