Showing posts with label David Boyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Boyle. Show all posts
Monday, June 01, 2026

People who never use AI are very bad at spotting AI-generated text

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AI use is seeping out of business and science writing and into the  world of literature. And that, says Malin Hay in a post on the London R...
Friday, September 05, 2025

GUEST POST The Tyranny of Numbers by David Boyle

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Anselm Anon pays tribute to David Boyle, who we lost earlier this year, by revisiting one of his best books. David Boyle’s death in June th...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2025

That time 11 years ago when I upset Enid Blyton fans

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Asked by the late David Boyle, who used to do freelance shifts on the newspaper's comment desk, I once wrote a piece on children's l...
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Saturday, June 21, 2025

David Boyle: Remembering a friend and important Liberal thinker

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I learnt this afternoon that David Boyle, the author, thinker and former editor of Liberal Democrat News, died suddenly yesterday. My happie...
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Friday, April 05, 2024

Looking back at Simon Titley's writings for Liberator

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The new issue of Liberator was posted on the magazine website this morning. You can download it free of charge  from there - it's Libera...
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Saturday, December 10, 2022

The Sins of G.K. Chesterton by Richard Ingrams

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Writing in the latest issue of the London Review of Books, Peter Howarth reviews a book on G.K Chesterton by the former Private Eye editor ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

The Joy of Six 1074

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"These ‘final’ train journeys are part of a long tradition for major public figures such as King George V and Winston Churchill, and ev...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Wellesley Tudor Pole and Edward Tudor-Pole

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David Boyle introduces us to Wellesley Tudor Pole: He was a former major in the British army, who had been on Allenby’s staff in Jerusalem ...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

The Joy of Six 1031

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"We need to find a way that we can return responsibility to local people and get all the sectors on board – to show how to build an eco...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Six of the Best 1000

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Congratulations on reaching number 1000? Up to a point.  I seem to recall that something went wrong with the numbering of this feature early...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Six of the Best 963

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Jonathan Chait offers a way of understanding Donald Trump: "He is a brilliant con man, who has, throughout his career in business and ...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Six of the Best 955

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"Whereas Thatcher offered young people hope - not least the hope of owning their own home - today’s Tories do not. Yes Thatcher wanted ...
Friday, June 26, 2020

Six of the Best 938

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Philippe Sands sees the British government still defending our colonial legacy: "Five decades on, many former residents of the Chagos A...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Six of the Best 935

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A podcast from Matthew d'Ancona reveals how Boris Johnson’s brush with death exposed a lethal amateurism at the heart of government....
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Six of the Best 916

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David Boyle looks to life after the coronavirus: "I'm not sure anyone will miss the airlines and airports (except the British, o...
Wednesday, March 04, 2020

GUEST POST Belloc, Chesterton and the Distributist League

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In an extract from his Back to the Land , David Boyle looks at the emergence of Distrbutism as an ideology. By 1918, and G. K.’s brothe...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

David Boyle on taking power locally

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David Boyle has written an essay - Counterweight: How Big Local areas are levelling the scales of local power - for the Local Trust: Gr...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Six of the Best 907

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"Most of us know precisely what is wrong with Tickbox - that most of these measures or targets either miss the point or get finessed ...
Monday, December 09, 2019

Six of the Best 898

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Jen Yockney says that Labour, by expending so much of its energy on attacking the Liberal Democrats, is repeating a battle plan that lead...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Six of the Best 885

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"Brexit is presented as some sort of triumph of popular will. But in actuality it has involved a relentless attempt to massively stre...