Hygiene
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
There’s truth in the toilet
Britain’s sewage problem requires a Victorian solution
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
