Why bother with exams?
It is traditional in August for journalists to muse on their own exam results days, usually dispensing sarcastic advice. How useful the trade’s experience...
Category: Blog
The narrowing of the progressive newsman’s mind
Most people will justifiably not give a shit about the resignation of a New York Times opinion editor. Partly because most people are not American – and basical...
Can we cancel cancel culture?
Some time ago a listener of the podcast asked me not use the word ‘retarded’ in any future episode. I declined, somewhat impolitely. He bid me farewell, and I a...
Politics and ice cream deserve to be different choices
Few would have guessed that in 2020 an alleged resurgence of ‘white supremacy’ in the United States would face condemnation from a plucky ice cream maker based ...
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s misleading American revolution
Yes, Hamilton is a masterpiece. The tunes are great, the costumes pleasing, and the melding of rap and hip hop with 18th century constitutional wrangling inspir...