The Mirror of #MeToo
Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
