Richard H. Thomas
Rotters, rogues and Champagne moments
This book is so colourful and well told that it should interest even those who find the game of Cricket dull
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
The campaign against National Conservatism is a disgrace
A peaceful conference is facing state and activist intimidation
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media