Worth Matravers tap room 2015
Room in the Square & Compasses, Worth Maltravers, Dorset (photo credit: Geoff Brandwood, 2015)
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Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
