Michael Bhaskar
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.