Super Bowl
The Great Game: Eyewitness to Trump’s first post-presidential Super Bowl party
There were sombre scenes at Donald Trump’s Palm Beach Super Bowl party
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA