Bristol
The meaning of the multi-faith area
Ugly as it is, it could be used for something beautiful
The Colston 4 and the fog of law
The politicised trial of the Bristol statue topplers shows the law surrounding protests is mired in confusion
Nothing ventured
Why the statue-smashers can’t tolerate civil society
A gap-toothed city
The campaign to put up a statue to Bristol’s greatest benefactor wasn’t about Colston, it was about Bristol
The facts and the fury
Feeling strongly about an issue is a dangerous justification for mob action
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
