Monday, 29 August 2016

Bisexuality, dual nationality and the frustrations of identity politics

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Why do I feel so frustrated about the new world of identity politics? I suppose because it is politics based on partial blindness, rather th...
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Monday, 22 August 2016

The strange and worrying silence of Paul Maynard

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Apologies for my absence for the past week or so. This was partly because I've been away, but it was partly also because I've become...
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Friday, 12 August 2016

How to settle the Southern strike..

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Twice in the last year or so, I’ve found myself having to intervene on the platforms of the London Underground to rescue older people from c...
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Wednesday, 3 August 2016

A guide to the Southern crisis in four acronyms and four myths

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Southern Railways have a dilemma now. Are they going to treat their staff like human beings or are they going to allow them to be captured ...
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Tuesday, 2 August 2016

Introducing Peter Abelard, the great medieval detective

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Some years ago, I made an unexpected splash in the media by suggesting that there were elements of the economy in the twelfth century whi...
Monday, 1 August 2016

Lions led by donkeys?

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Have you noticed that 'Brexit' is becoming an excuse for every kind of incomp- etence and ineffic- iency? A sort of twenty-first c...
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Monday, 25 July 2016

Southern Railways is the canary in the mine

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There I was coming into Victoria Station on the train. It was almost on time (no complaints there). Then, over the loudspeaker, the guard ...
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