Mental Patients
What’s it like to have a home? Part II
Decades later, I remembered my mother’s mental patients
What’s it like to have a home? Part I
In the 1980s, Britain closed most of its mental hospitals, and some of the patients became my friends
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
