Pounding to nothing
Patrick Porter reviews The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton
Afghanistan and the lies we tell ourselves
The leaked “Afghanistan Papers” tell a story of cover-ups at every level of America’s longest war. But can we really expect anything different?
Speaking power to truth
Patrick Porter reviews The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
Looking back: WWIII remembered
This was not supposed to happen. Not in the year 2029. A nuclear war, millions dead, firestorms, irradiated cities. How did we get here?
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
