defense spending
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left