Podcast
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Power, money and the English city
The development of English urbanisation
I love a “dream home” nightmare
What disasters will strike the family next? You almost expect a tsunami
The Road to the Cass Review — (5) Lord Moonie
How one “awkward sod” refused to follow the trend on gender
The future of higher education
How can universities be more efficient and effective?
The Road to the Cass Review — (4) Keira Bell and Paul Conrathe
The dark realities of gender medicine come to light
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
