Soft Power
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Soft power has little substance
The foreign policy concept has been used as an excuse for declinist myth-making
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
What women have lost
How can women focus on traditional feminist issues when spiteful men are demanding to be included?
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Where are the bodies?
The curious case of Kemi’s “sackings”
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
When will bishops be held to account?
If you challenge the progressive establishment, prepare to be abandoned by the hierarchy of the Church of England
