America
Letter from Washington: In defence of American sport(s)
Would the super league have made football more American? If only.
Take Biden seriously
Why the new president’s call for unity is more than a platitude
Wherefore art thou, America?
The United States’s travel ban makes us all poorer
Covid and stogies on the campaign trail
A trip through a swing state reveals the complex dynamics of a strangely disembodied presidential race
America’s Southern Gothic Moment
Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?
France, Mali and military coups
French interventionism in Mali has fostered little stability
A pigment of her imagination
The pitfalls of (not) being black in American academia
Why can’t California control predictable fires?
California’s rulers again shift the blame to conservatives rather than admit their own incompetence
A spy all along
Morton Sobell went on trial for espionage with the Rosenbergs. His devotion to communism fascinated me
Divided by a common Christian faith
While American churches remain deeply split on racial lines, there are hopeful signs of a rapprochement
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
