One Smooth Move: How to Combine Packing and Moving Services Locally
Packing and moving are often treated as two separate jobs, but coordinating them as one process can make a local relocation much easier. When the…
Putin: the blind autocrat
In The Wizard of the Kremlin, a movie whose most impressive achievement is making Russian history boring, Paul Dano plays a Kremlin PR hack tasked with building what Putin, played…
A childless world changes everything
Smannell and Enham Church of England Primary School looks more like a chapel than a place of learning. On this fine morning, the Victorian-era building is quiet as I stare…
How Shakespeare explains the Taliban
“Ban, ban, Ca-Caliban! / Has a new master. Get a new man.” Whenever I see the word “Taliban” I always think of The Tempest. Caliban sings those lines after Stephano…
The plot to stop the AfD
Saxony-Anhalt, in the western part of eastern Germany, is hardly the country’s most important state: it accounts for only a fraction of Germany’s GDP and is home to just two…
Why universities embrace cheats
Imagine you discover a magical ring that bestows invisibility on its wearer. What do you do next? Many an introductory ethics course has started with the Ring of Gyges from…
How Domesday made modern England
Over the next nine months, visitors to the British Museum’s much-heralded Bayeux Tapestry exhibition will encounter a 1,000-year-old, all-action cinematic masterpiece. On it, they will see warlords hunt and fight…
Nepal’s clean energy curse
It is an article of progressive faith, and I timidly count myself among the faithful, that the green transition is necessary for our survival as a species. On this point,…
Get ready for the Trump Slump
Improbable though it may seem, a bombing raid on Iran may, like the proverbial Chinese butterfly flapping its wings and causing faraway chaos, trigger disparate distant ructions. Not only could…
Can Team Trump save Western Civ?
“Rights are not something that are created by governments. Natural rights belong to all human beings on account of their nature as human beings, they’re unchanging, and they can’t be…
How Wendell Berry saved my life
I owe Wendell Berry my life. Not literally, of course, but maybe in a deeper and more important sense, the life that I now lead. Considering myself truly blessed with…