Sontag
Among the deathworks
On culturing culture
The all-round smart cookie with a tin ear
Sontag’s influential pieces are rather fewer than this book’s breezeblock dimensions might suggest
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
