Innovation
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Peace in our towns
Fiona Duncan loves the unexpectedly luxurious calm of a city break
The degrading cynicism of Joe Biden
While Trump was firm but measured, Biden’s response was to consistently stoke fear of death
Class matters: why rugby league players don’t receive knighthoods
Despite a mass public campaign, Kevin Sinfield hasn’t received a knighthood this year. It comes as no surprise to rugby league fans
Wheeling and spieling
Thomas Woodham-Smith breaks the antique shop silence
What makes a hero?
Today, our heroes are demi-gods with superhuman powers, genius detectives and, painful though it is to admit, activists
Was test and trace doomed to fail?
If nothing else, Dido Harding has outperformed her European counterparts
The unsurprising rise of AI art
Whether we like it or not, the intrusion of AI into the domain of human creativity is going very quickly to become a fixture of our lives