UK Politics
Follow the Who Funds You
Oddly nobody’s shadowbanning conspiracy theories about the Great Barrington Declaration
You’ll get tired of the Not Talking
What if the real Brexit drama was … over a long time ago?
Are fictional politicians as interesting as the real thing?
Sir David Hare’s new BBC drama feels small-scale when we are surrounded by far more impressive real-life spectacles
The sword of justice cuts both ways
Unexplained Wealth Orders reverse the burden of proof
The Royal Navy in the front line against slavery
It is wilfully forgotten that the Royal Navy was central to ending the slave trade
The medical community’s revolt against lockdown
For a government which insists it is “following the science,” there is a striking reluctance to listen to the scientists
Why aren’t dogs social distancing?
Dogs spread risk, and owners spread dogs
What’s the point of the ECHR?
Social policies have become issues of human rights
The Ides of Boris
The instruments of darkness tell us truths
It’s that nurse again
Both Mary Seacole and the Girl Guides deserve better
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
The spy who came in from the coast
Defector Natalie Elphicke leaves the Circus to join the pinkos
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Can we balance re-enchantment and reality?
We should not throw out the civilisational baby with the consumerist bathwater
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
