Shakespearespeare
Two essays in excellence
The BBC at its best on Shakespeare, and remembering Barry Humphries.
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
