William Brown
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
