The problem with football pundits
Why are we so often stuck with inarticulate ex-pros?
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
