Podcast
Colonial expansion and industrial development
Did Britain’s 18th century colonies spur the Industrial Revolution?
Performance politics (with Lola Salem)
On the multi-pronged campaign against reality
Disinformation and the nation (w/ Fred Skulthorp)
Journalists have to do better to improve trust
Britain’s grooming shame
When will there be consequences?
The Major problem
What is his legacy — if, indeed, he has one
What has gone wrong with our universities?
A warts and all look at British higher education
Mapping the past — and the future
A catalogue of cartography
House of Lords — keep, reform or abolish?
Why is there so little agreement?
World War E
Twitter, Musk and the corruption of the Internet
The truth about book reviewing
What does it mean to be critical?
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
