Catherine Belton
The long arm of the Chekists
This book is an apt metaphor for the state of freedom of speech in modern Britain
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Why has Tehran released Toomaj Salehi?
The regime is said to be split over whether to target high-profile protesters
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
