Letters
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
December letters
Stuffed ballot boxes, menaced Baltic countries and Tory tearaways who came good
November Letters
War, Brexit, Truss and an idea for new merchandise
Letters for October
Housing, festivals, intellectuals and X
Letters August-September
From buildings to booze
Letters for July
Anglo-Saxons, Clement Attlee and love for our mascot
Letters for June
Self-defeating Unionists, abused animals, suffering centrists and overlooked antipodeans
Letters for May
Arson, fraud and a little poetry
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
