Execution
A correctional facility
Who, exactly, is being corrected by an execution?
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
