Podcast
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Power, money and the English city
The development of English urbanisation
I love a “dream home” nightmare
What disasters will strike the family next? You almost expect a tsunami
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
