Ward Wilson
Ward Wilson is a Senior Fellow and director of the Rethinking Nuclear Weapons project at the British American Security Information Council, a think tank focusing on nuclear disarmament based in London and Washington, D.C. Follow him at @WardHayesWilson
Too dangerous to live with
There’s no realist case for the lurking risk of nuclear armageddon
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)