Beekeeping
Hive minds
Plants, not hobbyists, are best for bees
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
