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How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal