Historian Guy de la Bédoyère says we need the wisdom of Diogenes the Cynic (404-325 BC) today more than ever. His acerbic wit, puncturing the pretensions of the powerful, and love of free speaking remain relevant today.
Sales of Wuthering Heights have skyrocketed, but most copies are reportedly going unread. But it's not because Gen Z is too dumb to read books, says Guy de la Bédoyère. It's because it's unreadable.
The NHS has been told to "stop discouraging cousin marriage" as genetic disorders are only "slightly increased". In fact, the risk is well over double, says Guy de la Bédoyère, and worsens in successive generations.
Britain's students have been betrayed, says Guy de la Bédoyère. Tens of thousands in debt to achieve worthless degrees with grades inflated by greedy universities – and no job prospects in sight.
Samuel Pepys was England's greatest diarist. He was also, by his own admission, a serial abuser of girls and women. Guy de la Bédoyère tells how his latest book on Pepys accidentally sparked a cancellation furore.
Modern technology may be a marvel, but it's also maddeningly unreliable, says Guy de la Bédoyère. Just when you need it most, it needs an update, or the Bluetooth drops out or the battery dies. It's driving us all mad.
We must never forget the horrors of lockdown. Guy de la Bédoyère's mother-in-law was 99 when she was sealed away from her family to 'save' her. She never saw her grandsons or great-grandchildren again.
Five years after warning where lockdown zealotry would lead, Guy de la Bédoyère looks back as the Covid Inquiry now claims Britain should have shut down harder and faster to save a mystic "23,000" lives.
Keir Starmer is planning digital ID for UK citizens. You may worry about the impact on civil liberties, but worry not, says Guy de la Bédoyère. A recent experience shows the system will never get off the ground.
Guy de la Bédoyère has recently returned from a road trip across the American West. Along the way he spoke to various Americans, among them Trump supporters but more noticeably demoralised and disaffected Democrats.
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