Terry Pratchett
What would Terry Pratchett have made of 2020?
Hard graft and moral clarity were central to the Discworld author’s success
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Those WhatsApp groups in full
Thirteen reasons to ban politicians from smartphones
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
