Media Bias
The death of dystopia
Fictional nightmares can provide childish escapism rather than harsh truths
Jordan Peterson and the condescension of Times columnists
20,000 people paying to watch a philosophy lecture is cause for celebration not scorn
The myth of the emotionally unstable populist voter
It’s time that smug pseudo-centrists had more humility
Proving evil
Hyperscepticism about appalling crimes dishonours the dead
The genealogy of nuclear fear
How the world turned against nuclear energy and rationalism
The tyranny of beauty
We all enjoy a looker, but that does not justify rampant discrimination
Cancel culture is a culture
Overcoming authoritarianism will take courage, not just policy fixes
The Beeb’s moral bankruptcy
The BBC keeps failing on sex and gender
Don’t get squishy on free speech
Centrists and conservatives are being hypocritical on liberty
In defence of the Ingram-Moores
Don’t blame them; blame yourself
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
