Faceblindness
Losing face
How do you pick up your nephew if you can’t recognise anyone?
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country