Optimisation
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Most Read
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough