A new democratic alliance
The world needs to rekindle its democratic alliances to counter China’s growing techno-authoritarian power
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
Telling tales out of school
Is it really about sex, race, generational hierarchies — or the changeable nature of student-teacher relationships?
Talk of the town
On the strangeness and variety of urban development
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try to subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
Snapshot of the PM who killed his party
History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different
