Christopher Hope
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki