Vandalism
Sycamore Gap and Britain’s sacred trees
Why has one tree inspired such emotion?
Grappling with evil
Historians are better placed to explain malicious acts than philosophers, who strive to subordinate them to reason
Death comes for the church building
The Church of England abandons historic buildings – can they have an afterlife?
An extreme form of criticism
Works by Michelangelo, Velázquez, Rodin, Rothko and Mondrian have all been vandalised for reasons of mental instability or political activism or both, informs Michael Prodger
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
