Floods
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
The dark underbelly of the sex industry
Advocacy for the idea of sex work has not been matched by advocacy for the exploited
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)