Lying
Disturbed by blurbs
On the ethics of literary marketing
On Lying
The line between dishonesty and stupidity can be difficult to spot
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
