Pharma
What deal would be acceptable to most Brexit-supporting MPs?
How far will regulatory divergence be permitted and how will disputes be settled?
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast