Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
