Scientisist
A certain modesty for numbers men
Hard problems don’t make behavioural science a hard science
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
