Radio Show
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
An American’s excellent essays
A set of fine programmes on the American bohemians who brought to life a great city on the cusp of significant change
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Will Labour build back better?
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
