Sir Eric Anderson
The best of Heads
Sir Eric Anderson employed the best and let them get on with it
The disarming power of restraint
He showed how the essential prerequisite for greatness is humility
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from the aqueducts, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths and town planning
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
Schrödinger’s sex binary
We have to resist the mass gaslighting of women and girls
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Yachts wrong with the world
Donald Trump, whiteness, superyachts and other evils
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
Starmer’s next step
The Labour leader has the chance to win trust as well as votes this election
The Conservatives deserve credit on sex and gender
They were slow to respond to institutional capture — but they did respond
It’s our party and we’ll cry if we want to
Women face grim choices in the forthcoming election