Podcast
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?
The red ripple
Why are we so obsessed with America?
Crisis? What crisis?
Maybe Old England isn’t done?
The last conversation
The problem with podcasts
The generation game
Ultimately pro-natalist in tone, this book approaches millennial worries about parenthood with curiosity and kindness
The menace of camouflage
There’s something dark about the spread of sartorial concealment to civilians
The short lives and violent deaths of Sweden’s rappers
Swedish rap is a window into a violent underworld
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
