Ministerial and Other Maternal Allowances Act
Shock: there is a pregnant “person” in the Cabinet
Legislation on maternity leave is now drafted to apply to “a person” not “a woman” who is a mother
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
