Black
A massacre of straw men
Kehinde Andrews is not a serious reviewer
Black to basics
Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
