pest control
Food for thought
Is it worth trapping the squirrels in my London garden?
A plague of pigeons
When the magic of nature becomes a curse
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
