Urban Exploring
Monuments and monstrosities
Humane planning has again succumbed to wholesale obliteration
Hidden London
Hidden London’s evocative photos of dereliction will fascinate commuters and tourists alike
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
