Adolescence
Should puberty be optional?
Girls deserve a better deal growing up — but avoiding puberty isn’t the answer
Happy non-binary day!
How internet communities are validating the fragile egos of adolescents
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world