Veterans
Playing with fire
Is writing a show about burns victims and the pioneering Guinea Pig Club really “appropriate”?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Security is important — but you often have to keep a very close eye on the guards
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak