Bharatiya Janata Party
India’s rape crisis
India is gripped by a “rape emergency”, a brutal conflict that is escalating
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings