Pen Farthing
Pet Mischief
In a serious country serious people would resign over Pen’s pets
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
