Great British Railways
August/September 2021: Letters to the Editor
Samuel Beckett is at his best when he’s being brief
Back to the future
The new Great British Railways should abolish the garish sweet shop designs of today’s trains and look to the glorious liveries of the past
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
