This week In talk about:

• 
  Some good things about Boris

• What Boris should be talking about

• The difference between whining and true dissent

• Human reason and flourishing

• The meaning of true liberalism

• Fame, success and the nervous system

• George Harrison and spirituality

This week I talk about:

• 
  Conversations with political disagreements

• Trump’s rally and the chants

• Nuance and outrage

• The Beatles rabbit hole

• Strawberry Fields Forever

• Being in a shit band

• Cliche and originality

This week I talk about:

• Nick Broomfield’s new film on Leonard Cohen

• The bohemian life and it’s paradoxes 

• Creativity and the muse

• Beauty and catalysts of art 

• Narcissism and art

• Trump and the establishment 

This week I talk about:

• The definition of poetry

• The Faber&Faber police

• Simon Armitage on Dylan’s Nobel Prize

• The role of poetry 

• Poetry and human nature

• Snobbery vs populism 

• The ballad tradition

• Cliches and tropes in song

This week I talk about:

• The supposed split in poetry

• Elitism vs democratisation

• Stylistic preferences vs genuine critical standards

• Marketing and creativity

• The importance of heroes

• Misunderstanding artists

• Liam and Noel Gallagher’s festival sets

This week I talk about: 

• More Leonard Cohen

• Creative success

• Getting over bitterness

• Beauty and what it means to be human

• Hong Kong and democracy

• Hypocrisy of the western left

This week I talk about:

• Gratitude to nasty comments

• If you have to ask you’ll never know

• Travelling in Greece

• Hydra - romantic wedding

• Leonard Cohen in Hydra

• Death of bohemia

• Leonard Cohen on the ‘tyranny of right thinking’
  

This week I talk about:

• Liberalism vs identity politics

• Quillette’s hatchet on Dave Rubin

• The basis for human rights

• Civilisation and human reason

• Plato, Socrates, Aristotle

• Liam Gallagher’s new single

• Rock n roll humanism

This week I talk about:

• Trump’s state visit

• Constantly having to justify your right to an opinion

• Trump and racism and speculative claims

• What Trump has done for minorities

• Getting tense during performances

• Sharing your creativity in these times

• Fighting back against nihilism and cynicism

This week I talk about: 

• The EU election results

• Disillusionment in public life

• The empty, risk aversion in political dialogue

• Individuality and community

• The liberal tradition

• Agency and morality

• The spin doctoring elites

• Scandal, platitudes and blandness