Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
Welcome waste land
The marshes, creeks, hulks and hidden beaches of the Thames estuary are thrilling
Games people play
Why team spirit leaves me cold
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
