We must embrace the AI revolution
Its risks are serious, but its uses could be miraculous
Life in Trusstopia
What would things be like if Liz Truss had continued to govern?
Letting data live
The secrets of semiconductors
A union of roads
How driving has brought us together
London shines in spring
Despite everything, it is a beautiful place
England reclaimed
How we became a nation of drainage engineers
The strange death of Tory pragmatism
Why can’t the Conservatives get things done?
Brute pleasures
Let us now praise famous concrete
The dishwasher dream
How domestic technology saved us time
The humanities aren’t dying; they’re emigrating
Humanities catastrophists are just professionally insecure
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
How to win at Monopoly
Once you’ve amassed your empire, ruthlessness must be the name of the game
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
