Burnham is keeping his enemies close
Last Monday, Andy Burnham delivered what was perhaps the most ambitious statement of economic intent since 1997. Standing outside Downing Street, the Prime Minister spoke…
Agatha Christie and the red scare
“The crime novel,” said Bertolt Brecht, “like the world itself, is ruled by the English.” Well, he was right on the first count, but the British crime novelists in the…
Labour’s battle of ideas
And so, Wes Streeting has fired the first shot in a “battle of ideas” within the Labour Party. Others will call it a civil war. Yet more will ask why…
Lucy Letby’s trial by Netflix
The officers descend on the cul-de-sac. It’s early in the morning, and as they make their way into the house a woman pleads, “No!” Her daughter sits in bed, groggy…
Why myths can save humanity
It’s often suggested, in these times of permacrisis, that we need a new story. Keir Starmer needs a new story, liberal democracy needs a new story, the environmental movement, the…
On cannibalism and Jeffrey Epstein
There are two main ways of understanding the case of Jeffrey Epstein, whose shocking correspondence with hundreds of celebrities, politicians, and businesspeople and academics has been giving its readers a…
How healthmaxxing saved my life
In 2023, I met with a colorectal surgeon at the University of Wisconsin’s research hospital while on a holiday break from my master’s program. I had been diagnosed with Crohn’s,…
How Gorton beat Denton
It is a familiar pub quiz reveal that the only constituency in mainland Britain to have ever elected an Irish nationalist MP was the now defunct Merseyside seat of “Liverpool…
Algo killed the new-media star
Byron Allen, the former standup comedian and small-scale media mogul who took over Stephen Colbert’s late-night slot on CBS this month, will pay $120 million for a controlling stake in…
The twilight of the intellectual dark web
Once upon a time, Jordan Peterson was seen as something like the Galileo of anti-wokeness. No longer. Following a highly publicized struggle with benzodiazepine addiction, requiring extended treatment overseas, the…
Inside the capture of the BBC
In his 13 years as a senior BBC editor, Rob Burley saw the Corporation’s defining commitment to impartiality undermined by transgender ideology, a blind commitment to diversity and inclusion schemes,…