Artillery Row
Mushrooming problem
We’re getting closer to fungi breaking down our plastic waste
The US should do more to advocate for peace
If Trump wants a big deal in Ukraine, he will need to change U.S. policy
Sheer sensual pleasure
Fatma Said: Lieder (Warner Classics)
The lost world of Stefan Zweig
A new book offers a flawed but insightful perspective on the life of an elegist of civilisation
The problem of race positionality and research funding
The racial identity of a researcher should not affect their progress in higher education
Murders for February
Winter might be fading but hearts remain cold
Let’s put experts in their place
Expertise is important but so are its epistemic and moral limits
Don’t blame the internet for youthful disaffection
Material conditions are more to blame than social media
High on their EDI
Repeated expensive and humiliating legal defeats make no dent at all to the proponents of EDI
Special interests should pay their own way
The Brussels blob needs more accountability
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it