Jokes
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
Sorry, not sorry
Sincere apologies require a shared set of values
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
Athenian ambrosia
Savour a culinary renaissance in Greece
Keir: more than just a lucky general
Neither Left nor Right can accept that Starmer’s impressive focus and strategic sense is responsible for transforming Labour’s prospects
Letters August-September
To paraphrase the Jeremy Corbyn defence, were the Tory Right present but not involved?
Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
Artificially Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material is not a victimless crime
The often-raised theory that AI-CSAM is harmless or can even make children safer, must be quashed
