Food
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Athenian ambrosia
Savour a culinary renaissance in Greece
Food fit for an angel
Celebrate Michaelmas in style
Playing God with our grub
Hey, Public Health England, leave our food alone
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
