Calling time on closing times
Pubs should be allowed to stay open longer
Guess Huw?
Time for a media law reset
Our inquiry problem
British public inquiries take forever and achieve too little
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
False hope and online therapy
What the cloying advertorials conceal
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Killing with kindness
“Be kind” culture has abandoned adolescent girls
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
