The BBC was reported to be in crisis yesterday. It is not. It is possible that some errors have been made. And every organisation makes
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Allegations are being made today about whether the BBC is impartial. I have just posted this comment on X: Those discussing impartiality should be pointing
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As the New York Times notes in a mail this morning: The leaders of China, Russia and Japan won’t be there. Neither will the leaders
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This was good, and entirely appropriate, from John Harris in The Guardian yesterday: People’s identities are complicated – something intensified by the means of communication
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The Financial Times has reported that Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation, which is the most influential conservative think-tank in the United States, is facing
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Arthur Laffer’s “curve” is one of the most destructive ideas in modern economics. Sketched on a napkin in the 1970s, it claimed that cutting tax
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A reader here asked this question today: Hi. New reader, found my way here via a recent interest in degrowth economics. I’m hoping someone here
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Donald Trump’s Great Gatsby–style party at Mar-a-Lago reveals everything about modern America — excess at the top, hunger at the bottom, and the deliberate cruelty
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I was recently reading the introduction to James Hoffmann’s World Atlas of Coffee, which someone in our house seems to have because this is a
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