America
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee
The New Appeasement
Why giving in to Russia is a bigger mistake than Munich
Forgotten films
Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories
A special place in hell
Why the “special relationship” needs to end
The BBC can’t help taking sides
Planned Parenthood is a “rights groups”, pro-lifers want to deny “abortion care”
Letter from Washington: Who are America’s vaccine sceptics?
Party politics is only part of the story when it comes to vaccine hesitancy
Scare talk on steroids
The Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric about the return of Jim Crow laws risks derailing their voting rights legislation
Team America may save us yet
Brits might not like to admit it, but the US can-do attitude is what we need to recover from Covid
China wolf bait
Chinese propaganda plays on the manifest faultlines of American society
Disunited States
A third of Americans now support the splitting up of the nation into like-minded countries independent of Washington
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
