Covid
Buried roots of war
We have not remembered all the relevant facts about the conflict in Ukraine
When did psychology get so cringe?
Mates don’t let mates inform manipulative politics with bad behavioural science
Freedom Day remembered
How the doomsayers got it wrong
The complacence of environmentalist urbanism
Increase access, yes, but don’t restrict movement
Pandemics, plagues and pestilence
Germs have been laying waste to civilisations for 50,000 years
Understanding abortion law
It is important not to let emotions cloud the facts
See it. Say it. Sod off!
Against the naggy state
Our inquiry problem
British public inquiries take forever and achieve too little
Toppling Babel
How truckers took on Trudeau
Let them eat cake
Our food security deserves more attention
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
