Morrissey
Heaven Knows He’s Miserable Now
The never-ending rise and fall of Morrissey
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal