Confederate Statues
Orwell: my self-help guru
Slavery should be reinstated so that it can be abolished by a queer woman of colour
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
The truth about London Bridge
Flawed narratives should not distort historical memory of the planning for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class