The Blob
Remain’s Media-Blob complex
How the Electoral Commission and the media nearly de-railed Brexit
Time to extend?
A crisis is the worst time to prolong the Brexit transition period
Covid is a symptom of the Age of China
British statecraft is not protecting us from an emerging autocratic superpower
Blobs for the boys
Priti Patel’s public spat shows No 10 needs to do better against the blob
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
