Satire
We deep dive at dawn
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Welcome to Chaptopia
Take all the power out of Westminster and give it to me
A winter of missed content
Is Britain going to be over by Christmas? Will our brave author survive the coming frost?
Coarseness and viciousness
James Gillray could be cruel but was a fine propagandist
My Hunk of Destiny
A tale of love and levelling up
Carry Ons: Phwoar! What a lovely set of hits
Grim, funny glimpses of a Britain in decline
Drag queens teach vital lessons
The last thing these people want is attention
The phantom menace
Reports from the space opera of British politics
What Britain’s first Asian prime minister means to me
Confessions of a borientalist
Down with the cis-axial patriarchy
How to debate an evil right-winger (if you must)
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
