Leisure
Ye new inne
Fiona Duncan looks forward to post-Covid hospitality
The joys of the virus
Can enforced idleness make us less stressed and more contemplative?
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
