Podcast
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The rise and fall of the British newspaper
What it’s like to be cancelled
Why cancel culture has gone too far, with Toby Young, Mike Mcculloch and Nick Buckley
The Grand Tour – what the British got up to abroad
Looking back on the Georgian European vacation with the historian Jeremy Black
How has James Bond evolved?
And is it for better or for worse? With author and historian, Professor Jeremy Black
What did Roger Scruton and Christopher Hitchens have in common?
Douglas Murray on the personal debt he owes to the two men he considers his literary mentors
Politics Past and Present: with Dick Taverne
How does the calibre of politicians compare between now and the 1960s?
Are we witnessing a new age of emancipation?
Or does ‘direct action’ undermine democratic institutions? Graham Stewart debates with Jeremy Black
Is Boris Johnson the wrong man?
And do we still have a national story? With Simon Heffer and Jeremy Black
What is the future of liberalism in Britain?
And what is the relationship between war and the state? With Nick Timothy and Jeremy Black
Back to school…or is remote learning enough for now?
And is there a point to counter-factual history?
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
