Innovation
The Tories have a nostalgia problem
Modern leaders must focus on modern problems
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Oldies made the best holiday companions
A trio of 20th century novels each offer a different desideratum for the discerning lounger
Kurt Weill: 2nd symphony, violin concerto (Somm)
A beautiful recording of an esoteric item
The post-liberal trap
The new communitarianism looks suspiciously like what we have already
Women can’t consent to their own murder and abuse
Today’s new law against non-fatal strangulation sends a message that violence against women is a crime, not a kink
Tough talk, no action on trans activist policy
While ministers wriggle out of responsibility, children are suffering
Maine attraction
There is better crime fiction being written
Steals on wheels
Women are having their cycling podium places stolen from under their noses by trans-identified men
The call to serve
Rob Hutton – sketchy leadership for sketchy times
’Verse averse
The idea that there are multiple universes and that it might be possible to “‘versejump” is surely one way of explaining the cinematic urge
Compulsory voting — the solution to our gerontocratic crisis?
Young people have been written out of British politics: it’s time to let them back in
Hail Mary
A Bloody Mary is perfect at almost any time of day and in every kind of weather