On the Virtue of Conflict
Viruses and vaccines are very much on our mind at the moment, and they stand in also as ready metaphors for social dangers and prophylactics….
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Is “Positive Action” a Legitimate Means to an End?
Personal Authority and the Social Contract in the ‘Crisis of Freedom’
The Quest for Social Justice?
Understanding How Institutions Become Radicalised and What Can be Done
The Culture Wars and the “Right to Offend”
Review: False Alarm: How climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor and fails to fix the planet.
The Totalitarian Ratchet: how fear, ignorance and disgust is eroding the democratic spirit and presages an ominous future.
Cluster____’s Last Stand
Top Trumps
The next people to face the Dragon’s Breath are a young man from Swindon [pause for sneer], called Bobbie and a young woman from Middlesbrough…
Sic Gloria Transit Mundi
Two slight acquaintances are seated in a Roman bathhouse: Gaius Julius? Sextus Lividicus; my wife knows your wife Hm How is your wife? Taken to…
A Midwinter Day’s Nightmare or “Down the Pan”
By Billy Shakestick Dear listener, draw near. I have a tale of intrigue in the affairs of states, mendacity in high office and of the…