The suffocating blandness of elite fashion
Leaders should dress like leaders
Fake it ’til you break it
Tech’s dangerous cult of genius
Zuckerberg’s revenge
Tech barons are building the future for us
Powerless heritage
Battersea Power Station is an architectural waxwork
Are timber skyscrapers the future?
Given the challenges that UK governments will face over the next decade, there’s every reason for us to embrace the timber age
Why accusations of vaccine nationalism miss the mark
Rather than condemning governments for favouring their own citizens in this way, we should focus on how vaccine surplus can reach poorer parts of the world
Back to the future
Trainsplaining a new world order
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
