Huw Merriman
The price of safety
From school face masks to how to pay for Covid – Tory MPs are getting nervous
Those WhatsApp groups in full
Thirteen reasons to ban politicians from smartphones
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
