sexual orientation
Not having a gay old time
On BBC radio’s preoccupation with Americans and identity politics.
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
World Government or Peoples’ Governments?
As the nation state system falters, we are faced with a choice between centre and periphery
British lessons for Canadian politics
What can the experiences of the Labour Party teach Pierre Poilievre?
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Graham Topman: festival organiser
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for another festival of arts, ideas and Graham (mostly Graham)
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from the aqueducts, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths and town planning
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
