Podcasts
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
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Karens and cohesion (w/ Ellen Pasternack)
Society depends on conscientiousness and taboo
From TV to the trans debate (w/ Graham Linehan)
Why truth and honour matter more than a quiet life
On a different plane
British air power in theory and practice
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Twitter’s doxxing problem
Social media “outings” expose serious lapses in legality and digital morality
Sorry is the hardest word
In the wake of the Cass Report, the hordes are now looking for a face-saving way to recant
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
Killing the good Samaritans
In the face of monstrous violence, we are losing control of our public spaces
