Nuclear War
The end of the world
Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s best and most important film
Putin, Shute and nukes
How much should we fear nuclear war?
The US must resolve its Ukrainian contradiction
Avoiding dialogue with Russia is reckless folly
Psychoanalysing autocrats
How the West tries to understand its enemies
Lessons from the brink
We should not be complacent about nuclear war
A very British crank
Bertrand Russell is almost too familiar a figure to be worth remembering
Unearthly study of life and death
Yukio Mishima concealed his poignant political commentary in a run-of-the-mill science fiction novel
Too dangerous to live with
There’s no realist case for the lurking risk of nuclear armageddon
Why nuclear abolition should fail
The harsh reality is that the nuclear revolution is irreversible and makes major wars significantly less likely
Apoca-Liz Now
How I learned to stop worrying and love the gaffs
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Talk of conscription is pure fantasy politics
We do not have the forces, the seriousness or the need for a major ground war
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Britain is still safe for Jews
It may be far from perfect — but where would be safer?
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
