Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
All that glitters is not gold
Why the “Decade of Health” campaign has left the UK feeling cold
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
It isn’t ageist to want Joe Biden to drop out
People are concerned about his condition, not his age
It’s called X, not XXX
Elon Musk is wrong to open the door to porn on X
C. L. R. James and the majesty of cricket
The West Indian writer and historian knew that cricket is far more than merely a sport
Twitter’s doxxing problem
Social media “outings” expose serious lapses in legality and digital morality