safetyism
Flights of fancy
The background noise of safetyism
Risk your neck, save your soul
Against the sterility of safetyism
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Toady of Whitehall
Open cruelty was met with equally shameless sycophancy
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
