The argument
Signed pieces. The other side gets stated first
The Long View
What Orwell Actually Said
Everyone quotes Orwell, and almost everyone quotes the half that flatters them. Read the whole of him and you find a man who fits no current team - which is the most useful thing about him.
Crossbencher · 20 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
The Long View
Teaching the Nation Its Story
A country hands itself on through the story it tells its young. The argument is stuck between a whitewash and a confession. The honest version is neither, and it's harder than both.
Crossbencher · 20 Jul 2026 · 2 min
The Long View
The Anywheres Have Always Been Here
The split between the rooted and the mobile is described as a modern affliction, a wound globalisation opened. It's one of the oldest fault lines there's. Treating it as new is how you misread it.
Crossbencher · 20 Jul 2026 · 2 min
The Long View
The Respectable Lag
Whether an idea is respectable and whether it's true are different questions, and they come apart on a delay. Most disreputable ideas deserve their disrepute. The trouble is that a few don't, and respectability alone can't tell you which.
Crossbencher · 19 Jul 2026 · 2 min