Sitcoms
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Resurrecting the great British sitcom
We are getting dangerously close to saying British sitcom itself should be off limits
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The dismal state of British defence
The UK’s defence strategy is a combination of hope and vibes
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
