Podcast
The Road to the Cass Review — (4) Keira Bell and Paul Conrathe
The dark realities of gender medicine come to light
The incarnation of vice
Sex, gypsies, smoking, smugglers, sex, bullfighting, murder, and did we mention…sex?
Is military history, history?
Tanks, but no tanks
The Road to the Cass Review — (3) Sue and Marcus Evans
What went wrong at the Tavistock Centre, and why
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
The Road to the Cass Review — (2) Stephanie Davies-Arai
How doubts began to penetrate the walls of gender ideology
Exeter — portrait of a modern university
Jeremy Black, historian of Exeter University, reflects on the shifting demands and priorities on campus.
The Road to the Cass Review — (1) Dr Michael Biggs
The foundational myths of gender medicine
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
