Progressivism
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Why conservatism is rational
Conservatives should take pride in the rationality of their reasoning
A.S. Byatt and the follies of magical progressivism
The late novelist understood the dangers of ego-centred delusions
Antisemitism and the discourse of privilege
Progressives hierarchies are not kind to liberal Jews
Ireland’s modern reformation
One cannot shed a faith without adopting another
Decline and crawl (w/ Ed West)
Tories, NIMBYs and Telegraph Blogs
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
