Sibyl Ruth
Sibyl Ruth is a writer and editor. She's working on a book about experiences of being cancelled
How I came to live in Looking-Glass House
How it feels to be exiled over political disagreement
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?