Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Twitter trolls disprove the myth of intrinsic goodness
Virtual reality is real enough to show man in his “natural” state
Steals on wheels
Women are having their cycling podium places stolen from under their noses by trans-identified men
Fiscal fibs
Beware Tories promising tax cuts
Rolling back into town
The world’s greatest band return to Liverpool — do they still have it?
The art of the hype
Beyond its backstory, ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ is both one of a series and an image made in part by a reproductive method
Beware the crisis crisis
Constant catastrophism is destroying our brains
Spook and crook
Research and authenticity are at the centre of these two series
The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure
Gay men have been failed by a lobby that trades in fear rather than facts
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers
Small wonder
Nithurst Farm, in West Sussex, plays games with classical architecture
The bacchanalia of Kawanabe Kyōsai
This exhibition at the Royal Academy revels in the artist’s versatility
Birth of a four decade nightmare
Time and again, Afghanistan has found its future decided from afar