Night Czar
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill