Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
The short lives and violent deaths of Sweden’s rappers
Swedish rap is a window into a violent underworld
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
