Media
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
The disingenuous anti-vax blame game
People have short memories about the MMR scare
Where is the media scrutiny of surrogacy?
The Pope is concerned but journalists seem indifferent
The meaning of the battle for Polish Television
The “liberal” suspension of the rule of law should concern us all
The sad reign of Ian Hislop
Appointed for his youth, he has become symbolic of cultural gerontocracy
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
WHO do they think they are?
Politicians should be more sceptical about ideology packaged as “public health”
Infected blood and infected institutions
Decades on from the beginning of the infected blood scandal, our institutions still fail to align themselves with the truth
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Strawberry fields? Never
The idea of toughening zoomers up with hard labour is a pointless fantasy
En rama drama
Spanish wine helps one escape the misery and damp of Britain
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
A lawyer in Number 10
What of prime minister-in-waiting Keir Starmer’s views on legal issues?
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Turning the tables on coercion?
Lord Walney’s report on political extremism is valuable if flawed
Hand to mouth
Delicacy, of unknown origins, makes us reluctant to pull plums with our thumbs
