Progressivism
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
Yes, I’m on the wrong side of history
Feminists usually are
The closing of the Episcopal mind
The Church of England’s leaders don’t reflect its political diversity
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
Hot air strikes (again)
The Prime Minister was sending a message, but it hasn’t been received
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
