Ben Stokes
A return to Lord’s
Two years on from the gripping World Cup Final, there are few pops and bangs this year at Lord’s
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded