Hammersmith Bridge
The Boat Race is being steered off course
Moving the Boat Race from London to Ely is a desperate measure
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
J.K. Rowling does it again
Why does one woman’s opinion cause so much outrage?
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
Trouble beneath the surface
Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Itchen for fishing
Good fishing, books and beer remind us that not everything is awful
Medical science is oppressive
Illness and wellness are mere taxonomies of power
The pointlessness of pintlessness
There is no case for slashing the drink-driving limit
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies