No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
Cancel culture is a culture
Overcoming authoritarianism will take courage, not just policy fixes
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
Corporations can become communities
Canary Wharf’s 8 Canada Square should be humanised
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Social media platforms are still stifling debate
Platforms like Instagram and Eventbrite should learn that a belief in biological sex does not amount to “hate”
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
The British family is nuclear powered
Sorry, post-liberals, but in Britain communitarianism is not traditional
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
