Dear Evan Hansen
Mood musical
An interesting new West End show about young millennials has echoes of far older classics
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
