Media
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
The disingenuous anti-vax blame game
People have short memories about the MMR scare
Where is the media scrutiny of surrogacy?
The Pope is concerned but journalists seem indifferent
The meaning of the battle for Polish Television
The “liberal” suspension of the rule of law should concern us all
The sad reign of Ian Hislop
Appointed for his youth, he has become symbolic of cultural gerontocracy
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
Attack of the Hydies
How the Tillies and the Lillies are transforming right-wing newsrooms
The opportunistic assault on GB News
This is an attempt to shut down the competition
GB News must save itself from itself
The channel can do important work if it gets out of its own way
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
