Scientisist
A certain modesty for numbers men
Hard problems don’t make behavioural science a hard science
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance