Orientalism
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
What Britain’s first Asian prime minister means to me
Confessions of a borientalist
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
