Optimisation
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies