Science
Who’s afraid of UPF? (Part 2)
Bad science is hard to swallow
The tangled web of sex
No, sex is not “bimodal”
Time doesn’t fly in Bianchini’s company
Heilbron writes with authority and – what is more unusual – genuine passion
Sex, New Scientist and me
How I learned to stop worrying and criticise the magazine
The life of lifts
The mechanical wonders of high-speed elevation
Can science hold all the answers?
Revisiting the thinkers who challenged the scientific method’s claims to have a monopoly on the truth and offer privileged access to reality
The dangerous charms of models
Mask mandates failed
Did Newton microaggress?
The government should stop supporting the EDI industry
The BBC’s black hole baloney
Auntie makes a cosmic error
Life is diverse — so what?
A new school of biological thinking runs counter to fundamental scientific truths and functions
The way forward for conservatives
We must have bold politicians who really believe in the things they promise
Foxy old Labour
Going after private schools would be an act of pointless institutional vandalism
Did QE cost taxpayers?
Claims that the Bank of England’s programme cost billions are a red herring
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
The Conservatives deserve to be taught a lesson
Bad behaviour has to come with consequences
Labour’s looming constitutional vandalism
A Labour landslide will complete the Blairite destruction of Britain’s unique constitution
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
