TV Debate
Bad television is good for democracy
This election has broken the aura and expectation accorded to TV debates
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
