Five Things – 16th January 2018

Here are five things we loved at Reaction today.  In particular, Hugo Rifkind’s appreciation of the bathetic character of the ‘Friends’ controversy is worth a read …

1. You’d have to be a prig to find Friends offensive – Hugo Rifkind, The Times

2. An Ancient Greek idea could foil Brexit’s democratic tragedy – Nicholas Gruen, The Guardian

3. UKIP no longer has a reason to exist as a party and should dissolve itself – William Hague, The Telegraph

4. The economics of fish and chips – Steerpike, The Spectator

5. John Stuart Mill showed democracy as a way of life – David Brooks, The New York Times