Rob Young
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
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Saint Nicola
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A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
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The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
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What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear