TXSL #21: United By Music – For Now
Picture a contest, widely televised and increasingly popular, in which each participating region sends a representative or two to compete in a grand tournament that… Read More »TXSL #21: United By Music – For Now
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TXSL #20: I Shopped A Shoplifter.
Yesterday I reported a shoplifter in my local Tesco Express. A steak-out. The shoplifter was a tall Caucasian man of about 40-50 years, with white… Read More »TXSL #20: I Shopped A Shoplifter.
TXSL #19: On Democracy, Disrespect and Duty
Last week my partner and I went to see Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical about the secret World War 2 plan to deceive Hitler into… Read More »TXSL #19: On Democracy, Disrespect and Duty
TXSL #17: Mandelson, Mandarins and Mandatory Disclosure
Imagine that, as CEO of one of the top ten biggest companies in your industry, you had to get rid of your sales director (an… Read More »TXSL #17: Mandelson, Mandarins and Mandatory Disclosure
TXSL #13: On Nick Timothy and Religion in the Public Sphere
Happy Eid-al-Fitr to all those who celebrate it! This week, Nick Timothy MP wrote an article in the Telegraph, criticising Muslims who gathered in London’s… Read More »TXSL #13: On Nick Timothy and Religion in the Public Sphere
TXSL #8: Three Political Questions at the 2026 Winter Olympics
I’ve been following some of the coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina this week as some interesting issues around the boundaries of political… Read More »TXSL #8: Three Political Questions at the 2026 Winter Olympics
TXSL #4: An Island of Dynamite: Trump’s Greenlandic Großraum is a Gross Miscalculation
The western post-war international order ended this week as Donald Trump ramped up his rhetoric on acquiring Greenland. Yesterday, this escalated further with Trump’s sudden… Read More »TXSL #4: An Island of Dynamite: Trump’s Greenlandic Großraum is a Gross Miscalculation
TXSL #2: Christmastime with Abd el-Fattah and Farage: a time for forgiving and for forgetting?
I was going to start this opinion column writing project with a whimsical critique of LinkedIn posts written in the ‘broetry’ style. But that will… Read More »TXSL #2: Christmastime with Abd el-Fattah and Farage: a time for forgiving and for forgetting?