Podcast Review
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
Superunintelligence
Have we witnessed the rise of ShappsGPT?
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
