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Are Young Voters Turning Right?

The Enigma of Luigi Mangione

How Did Politics Get So Weird?

My Ten Favourite Books of the Year

Maybe Your Opinion Is Just a Feeling About a Story

James Marriott on Jordan Peterson

The Six Million Dollar Banana

The Ad That Radicalised Me

What Does It Mean For a Brand To Be Radical?

The Unreal Thing

Are You Charismatic Or Charming?

Why Does Donald Trump Keep Happening?

Who Has The Better Final Pitch?

Why You Should Ignore All the Polls

In (Partial) Defence of Jeff Bezos

The Historian and the Culture Warrior

Why Giving Up On The Humanities Is Self-Destructive

The Orangutan Theory of Intelligence

Introducing 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs'

Unveiling 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs'

Why Britain's Elites Shun Highbrow Culture

How the World Failed Greta Thunberg

Is Culture Dying?

How To Be Charles Darwin

The Story Behind the Greatest Guitar Solo in Rock History

Last of the Curmudgeons

My Book of the Year

Why Are Americans Growing Less Comfortable With Speaking Up?

Is Forgiveness a Power Move?

20 Observations On Friendship

'Weird' Should Not Be An Insult

Nike's Winning Strategy

No, Joe Biden Is Not a Hero

The Trump Shooting Was Fake News

Five Bad Motivations With Good Outcomes

Do You Wear the Mask or Does the Mask Wear you?

Congrats Keir, You Won, Now Change

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Joe Biden?

The Age of Centrist Heroes Is Over

Birth Of the Nudge Economy

Creativity Needs Stupidity

Why You Have an Obligation To Be Optimistic

Britain's Peculiar Brand of Patriotism, In Three Ads

The Renaissance Redux

Why Things Might Actually Be About To Get Better

Seven Underrated Forms of Diversity

Why Margaret Thatcher Didn't Jump

Zadie Smith and the 'Both Sides' Problem

Notes on a History of the Florentine Renaissance

The Good Enough Trap

What's the Point Of Protests?

The Standing Ovation Theory of Everything

27 Takes On What It Means To Be a Serious Person

The Sunak Question

Why Does Being Left-Wing Make You Unhappy?

How Silicon Valley Hacked the Science of Human Behaviour

Can You Imitate a Genius?

Why London's Famous Penguin Pool Has No Penguins In It

Am I Anti-Woke?

Why It's Good To Be Biased

In Praise of Slow Learners

The State of the Culture Is...Not Bad, Actually

Delusional self-belief is a superpower until it's a disaster

The Google Gemini Debacle Shows Us Why Office Politics Matters More Than Ever

Rattle Bag

Hitler's Willing Executioners

How To Fix DEI

42 Reflections On the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

Opposites Attract

Five Myths About Trump

The Ruffian Speaks

Ten Useful Concepts

Notes on Radiohead

If Gervais and Chappelle are so unfunny why are they so popular?

Leslie's Razors