Peter Sellers
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
Christmas? My arse!
Seething about Santa, sofagate and the Common effing Entrance
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Why the world could be more dangerous in 2025
The old order is breaking apart and bad actors are taking advantage
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
