What really happened in Nottingham
In 2022, women are no longer allowed to gather in public libraries
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
