Podcasts
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Lords of the wrestling ring
Professional wrestling podcasts have become almost as popular as wrestling itself
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity
Talk of the town
On the strangeness and variety of urban development
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
No room for reform?
We should hope that even the worst people can change
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
Corporations can become communities
Canary Wharf’s 8 Canada Square should be humanised
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
