Social Sport
The games people play
The fascination with esoteric sports with quirky rules and limited spread
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
