Author: Julian Baggini

Nimbyism is too often reduced to its negative sides: metathesiophobia (fear of change) and xenophobia (fear of strangers). But these fears are arguably the flipsides of what the late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton called “oikophilia”: the love of home.

I used to play five-a-side football with Keir Starmer. Although this might sound like a pathetic attempt to show that[…]