Neil O’Brien
Shutting up the unspeakable is still a bad idea
The scientific method remains dissent and criticism, even for Lockdowns
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
