The End of October
Lawrence Wright’s pandemic prescience
An interview with the man who saw it coming
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
London’s lamps live on
Thanks to the dedication of the Gasketeers, a beautiful tradition has been saved
