Andreas Eschbach
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
