Pride and Prejudice
The past speaks for itself
The problem with modern period drama
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
