Degrees of Mental Illness
Cassandra Russell on the university students who game the system by self-diagnosing as psychologically unwell
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
