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The meaning of laughs
In praise of Douglas Adams, a comedy legend
Women’s anger and women’s ambiguities
A new exhibition offers interesting, if sometimes confusing, perspectives on women in revolt
Eight women well worth meeting
“Parallel Lives” is an unsung gem of an exhibition
“Reputational risk” is rot
Business is obsessed by this pseudoscientific nonsense
From the Trojan War to conflict in Ukraine
Rich insights into eras of incessant bloodletting
What is it with populists and comical haircuts?
Crazy hair can be as much of an asset to a firebrand politician as crazy rhetoric
Society cannot ignore surrogacy
Exploitation and dehumanisation are being normalised to a disturbing degree
Xi bangs the drum
On geopolitics with Chinese characteristics
A bitter pill for public health
The sugar tax has not worked as intended
You can criticise comedy without cancelling it
Ricky Gervais should ask himself who he is satirising and why
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
How the DVSA is driving young people mad
Driving tests should be much more accessible than they are
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
