Travel Writing
A history of the world set in stone
Popular geology writing is as old as the geological sciences themselves
The tribe that time forgot
In the heart of the Amazon basin the Korubo people live in almost total isolation
From Lima with love
Around the world to watch the bullfights
Why I still travel with my Rough Guide
The series has no equal
Like Wotan driving the storm
What it’s like to fulfil a boyhood dream on the footplate of a classic steam locomotive
A bird-lover’s lament
Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain
Apocalypse soon?
Civilisations always rise and fall — ours is no exception
It’s a flying shame
A travel editor gives up planes… for a year
Revolutions and revelations
An epic bike ride from London to Tehran sheds light on links between the East and West
Pandemic panic on the River Plate
Going mano e mano with the malady of Montevideo
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation