Orchids
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
