Memorials
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Memorials to the fallen of Covid
An act of quasi-guerrilla commemoration
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
