Robinson Crusoe
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
