Misinformation
Sins of omission
Taking statistics out of context is a dangerous games, says Theodore Dalrymple
Cheques and balances
John Self says that while writing has always been seen as a vocation, the characters many authors care most about are the ones printed on their royalty statements
Dumping on Trump
Borders, the body politic and the last inauguration
Are timber skyscrapers the future?
Given the challenges that UK governments will face over the next decade, there’s every reason for us to embrace the timber age
Terry Rant
Ageing controversialist
You talkin’ to me? Fuhgeddaboudit!
E. J. White’s book on the history of New York English is not the first on the subject, but it goes a long way in explaining the evolution of the city’s unique linguistics
C. S. Lewis: The making of a reluctant Christian superstar
Rev. Steve Morris identifies Lewis’s experience at a remote World War Two airbase as defining the way of talking to regular people about the spiritual life
The evolving role of Prime Minister
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries
The New Keynesian inflation experiment
A post-pandemic surge in US asset prices has settled an old economics argument: boosting the money supply does lead to higher prices
Why Damien Hirst is the perfect artist for the pandemic
Damien Hirst’s work encapsulates the sterility, isolation and obsession with death of these times, says Alys Denby
The Donald and me
In July 2005 Donald Trump became my best, new friend