Risk
Is it safe?
The torture of our new safety obsessed national psyche
Bobbies’ shame
Why did the police facilitate a sham funeral for a dead terrorist during Covid restrictions?
French soul searching
The search engine that tells you if you are descended from slave owners
Is the age of the single-sex boarding school over?
As Winchester College prepares to turn co-educational, Alexander Larman asks if single-sex boarding schools may soon become a thing of the past
The questioning of women
Answers are the hardest words to say
Syria’s civil war 10 years on
Syria’s war has licensed this century’s worst growth in violent depravity – and it shows no sign of ending soon
Losing the plot
Robert Thicknesse reveals how in searching for meaning, opera adaptations are becoming more obscure
Banking party poopers
When we set up the Reclaim Party, we met every type of establishment obstacle
Swift reprise
Swift’s latest project is even more interesting than the imaginary motherhood album she pinned her hopes on
The highest calling
Johnson doesn’t take responsibility for his own actions, so why should anyone else in the government?
Temple to craft and prestige
A beautiful and unusual book can lift the spirits of even the most jaded reviewer