Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Not so smart casual
Modern politics and the decline of the suit
A tragedy of manners
Is the US endangering its status in Europe?
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
