Waterways
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
