US Department of Defense
Afghanistan outsourced
Does Biden’s withdrawal include the thousands of mercenaries keeping it going?
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
In defence of Elon Musk
Open debate might be messy but it is essential
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Corporations can become communities
Canary Wharf’s 8 Canada Square should be humanised
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
