Features

Accost in translation

Each new rendering must make the case for its superiority to previous versions

Island of strangers?

The decline of popular aphorisms reflects the disappearance of a shared moral code

Time to chuck out the lawyers

The immigration system is broken beyond repair, thanks to activist barristers and a hopeless Home Office

Prospect in middle age

Insider reflections on Britain’s political magazine scene

How I was secretly logged as a criminal by police

In the Kafkaesque world of guilt without proof

Take back London for pedestrians

How to tackle the capital’s problem cyclists

We can’t publish this!

The beloved classics that were repeatedly rejected

Let’s hear it for early music

Competence unencumbered by ideological fog or bureaucratic sprawl

I didn’t like cricket; now I love it

Making up for lost time

Plausibility is not truth

Do you really understand AI?