Podcast
The end of the line?
Arriving at our destination
Hitting the buffers — when rail fails
Bold projections and frustrating results
The wisdom of gamekeepers (w/ Patrick Galbraith)
Deer, eels and Philip Larkin’s lawnmower
Uni tunes (w/ Charlie Bentley-Astor)
Ideas that deserve discussion, not cancellation
Travel and terror — trains in World War Two
From the Western Front to the Holocaust
Out of the Ashes (w/ Nick Timothy)
Will England triumph in 2023?
Blood on the tracks — rail transport between the wars
A golden age of trains, before a dark age for the world
The making of an energy horror story (w/ James McSweeney)
Grab some popcorn and prepare to scream
The uncivil service (w/ Radomir Tylecote)
Is Britain becoming a synthetic democracy?
Writing the world to rights (w/ Jo Bartosch)
Making a difference from your desk
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
