Secret Barrister
Dinner at Brasenose? Unmasking the Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister’s new book tears apart fake news and the notion of compensation culture
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
