Wrestling
Lords of the wrestling ring
Professional wrestling podcasts have become almost as popular as wrestling itself
Live not by kayfabe
The dark side of professional wrestling is the dark side of institutional life
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
The vindication of Cass
An attempt to overturn restrictions on providing puberty blockers has failed
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
