Moll Flanders
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
