Eric Ravilious
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Eric Ravilious: a talent too long ignored
Ravilious’s ethereal, understated paintings are quietly dazzling
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life