Vodka
Shots with everything
Lisa Hilton tries indigestible mac ’n’ cheese at a venue that should have gone the way of the tzars
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West