Sydney
Locked down under
Do Australia’s leaders really know what they’re doing?
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
