The distinctiveness of human aggression
A review of The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
