Podcast
Xi bangs the drum
On geopolitics with Chinese characteristics
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
Red alert?
Apocalyptic intimations in the mid-1900s
Mysteries of history (w/ Samuel Rubinstein)
From the Anglo-Saxons to Israel and Palestine
The opposing eagles
Geopolitics in Nazi Germany and the United States
Ideas, influence and international politics
The academic origins of geopolitics explained
What is geopolitics?
The origins of a contested concept
Glastonburied (w/ David Butterfield)
Can we keep live music alive?
The end of the line?
Arriving at our destination
Hitting the buffers — when rail fails
Bold projections and frustrating results
A day in Scientopia
When we think in terms of science, do we lose our humanity?
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
The EU must respect Britain’s borders
Freedom of movement for EU youth would threaten our security for no obvious gain
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Do we really need population growth?
Population decline need not mean national decline
