Animals
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Itchen for fishing
Good fishing, books and beer remind us that not everything is awful
Cancel the train drivers
Brexiteers, transphobes, racists and right-wingers — but I repeat myself
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Backing horses
Britain should value a homegrown success story
A teenager, strangers and a pair of apes
Spend time inside the mind of your most eccentric, sometimes maddening friend
Is nature non-binary?
Enby birds and promiscuous plants are all part of a long history of dragging humans down to the level of beasts
Gunning for shooting
Why field sports are so misunderstood
Lions, lies and legislation
The harms of trophy hunting have been exaggerated
Lavender letters
Bozza has left the building
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
