Chris Van Tulleken
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
