TV Debate
Bad television is good for democracy
This election has broken the aura and expectation accorded to TV debates
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
Prepare for takeoff
Masters of the Air is a visually impressive aerial WW2 adventure with the potential to go far
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
