Kim Leadbeater
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes