Kim Jong Un
The Dear Leader and the gnome
Friendship between the Kremlin and North Korea is no joke
DPRKino
The wonderful world of North Korean cinema
Gods and monsters
Even in secular regimes, theology always has its revenge
When Political Families Fall Out
Has the dysfunctional family replaced the dynastic one in politics?
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Remembering an Agatha Christ-mas
What maintains our fascination with the worlds of Agatha Christie?
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
