Sohrab Ahmari
The conservative case for socialism?
Sohrab Ahmari’s anti-business prescriptions fail to convince
The wisdom of the old traditions
The Unbroken Thread is an engaging and entertaining read — but it feels like a project that’s only just beginning
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Night of the ghost fascism
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested?
Elon Musk versus the EU
A high-level dispute has major implications for online freedom
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)