Mythology
The empty gap
The meaning of the felling of the Sycamore Gap
Tolkien, 50 years on
The true scale of his legacy is gradually becoming apparent
A toast to C.S. Lewis
A poet of the human soul
Goodbye to the Gorgoneion
Can we invent myths or are they what make us what we are?
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
