Parkrun
A stroll in the park
Nick Cohen loves the weekly run that insists it’s not a race
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
