Witchcraft
The demons of WitchTok
Are Gen-Zs summoning evil spirits online?
Storm in a cauldron
As witches’ brews go, it’s rather weak tea
Discussing Magic
Jeremy Black reviews The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment, by Michael Hunter
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
A judicial defence of religious liberty is long overdue
Christians should not be discriminated against because of their religious beliefs
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
