Epidemiology
Coronavirus: are international comparisons helpful?
And do Europe’s small countries give us the most accurate statistics?
The meaningless Covid-19 models
Which, if any, expert estimates should we take seriously?
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
