Spies
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
Spies and butterflies
We should prepare for new modern forms of espionage
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
