Albert Einstein
Time flies, relatively speaking
The older you are, the quicker you count out a minute
Hot sauce
Lil Nas X is the greatest show in the world right now
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
The wine of emperors
The puzzling economics of venison
Iron secretary
He didn’t quite dress up as Maggie, but he did everything but
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
War without end: Putin’s Syria model
The war in Ukraine shows tragic parallels to the earlier conflict
Dinner in the Bloodlands
Belarus Free Theatre brings moral complexity to the table
Manifesto for how we love now
Louise Perry suggests that ancestral prudence is now lost among the youth
The truth about the Grand Mufti’s visit to the UK
Shakwi Allam speaks the language of religious pluralism to western audiences, but sanctions persecution within Egypt
Sounds and sweet airs
Classical music is flourishing in Britain — though if you listened to our cultural elite you’d never know it
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried