Modern World
Pleasures of sex and berries
Hart explains why we’re adapted to the environment we evolved in, rather than the one we inhabit
How the Ukraine delusion may end
Biden might entertain peace to cut his losses and boost his election chances
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
