Cigar
Havana splendid time
On the joy of cigar smoking
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
