The suburbanisation of Stonehenge
Spiritual clichés offer no more than mere commerce
Inside the box
Microdosing, drug use and interiority
The conversion of Jeffrey Dahmer
How should we think about evil?
The authenticity illusion
We all have a little LARPer inside us
The decline of madness
The colourful history of the Tavistock Clinic
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
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
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
