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
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Where is the media scrutiny of surrogacy?
The Pope is concerned but journalists seem indifferent
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
The revised Scottish Prison Service transgender prisoner policy is not fit for purpose
Any work for bringing it into force should be stopped
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there