Arthur Schopenhauer
The twin prophets of pessimism
The novelist and the philosopher linked by a common fascination with despair
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
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
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
