Tithing
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
