2022: What can we say?
Weaponised words can only decrease in value
Poetry matters
When poetry is sold as nothing more inspiring than literary politics, is it any surprise the poetry shelves in Waterstones are so dusty?
Stop mining!
Deeper data shafts just produce useless piles of waste
Why don’t we care about twentieth century traditional buildings?
The demolition of M&S on Oxford Street is indicative of a wider attitude towards interwar architecture
Lana chameleon
Pitchfork was one of a whole ecosystem of taste-making blogs which laid claim to being the ones who had made del Rey
Faith at war
It is a hardened atheist who does not ask a few favours of God as he fixes his bayonet
The devil is in the detail
The assisted suicide bill has practical challenges to answer before it should convince us to start down a dangerous path
Rooms with a view
Will the law protect owners of high-rise flats from happy-snapping tourists?
Woke: the oldest profession
The modern hegemony of the “liberal professions” has become one of the principal challenges to liberal democracy
Battle of the leftists
Which group of non-teachers run the universities: Vice-chancellors or UCU leaders?
Awful states
Two political thrillers reveal the intimate cruelties of life under dictatorship
No one expects the EU Inquisition
The Digital Services Act would appoint “coordinators” with an army of “trusted flaggers” to police digital speech in every EU member state
Old-fashioned sexism
The case of Bryony Frost reminds us what women faced before transgender athletes upset sports equality
Qatar of Hydrogen, Saudi Arabia of Wind
Governments are gambling their economies on the Green agenda — and the people are paying