Racism
Mysteries of history (w/ Samuel Rubinstein)
From the Anglo-Saxons to Israel and Palestine
Struggling with CRT in the workplace
We should resist the creeping spread of a Manichean model of social life
Not polling to be proud of
A study on Black Britons and national pride is based on unreliable stats
Peckham, protests and “parasitic merchants”
Demonstrations have exposed the tribal underbelly of modern Britain
I wanna be black
The perils of self-identification
Life through the kaleideologyscope
Must everything be reduced to political resentment?
A massacre of straw men
Kehinde Andrews is not a serious reviewer
Deconstructing the decolonisers
An intellectual Robin Hood reclaims British history for those most underserved by elite narratives
Lost in translation
Do not dream of comparing Roma history with the Jews
Asking the right questions about race
If racial disparities don’t equate to racism, then what does explain it?
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
