Issue: December/January 2024

The Covid inquiry could help improve our response to the next crisis, but is not asking the right questions

Inflated Mau Mau death figures based on incorrect statistical projections have now become accepted as “fact”

Their lurid covers were catnip to bloodthirsty, impressionable teenagers

An interesting but unconvincing Rawlsian case for socialism

The Wicker Man is an ironic masterpiece that exposes the paradox of paganism

Covering a French spy thriller, a documentary on Eichmann and a British government drama

Difference is not betrayal and opinions are not violence

Their rhetoric is unhinged, yet still they preen

Britain’s population is rapidly growing but the authorities seem implacably opposed to building new houses

International law is often far less clear than it might sound