Features
Alliance of disruptors
The growing bond between Moscow and Beijing
‘I fear people adapt too much’
The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer on how to stay ahead of the algorithms
Sick jokes
Medics need black humour
Untying the knot
The rise of lesbian divorce
Russian roulette
Is Moscow’s bluff backfiring?
Whistling
There was, at least until recently, an old sign round the back of the Savoy banning whistling by staff or…
Carp
All anglers are obsessive, but carp fishers are the most single-minded of all. They think nothing of spending weeks on…
Coming up roses
Kenya’s flower growers have a busy time ahead
Shadows of Macron
Could Valérie Pécresse become France’s first female president?
Grapes of wrath
Don’t deny me my communion wine
Cop out
Constant castigation is harming the police force
Speak easy
The secretive art of speechwriting
Waiting game
Who really controls the NHS?
Boris in the bunker
Everything he now does is aimed at keeping Tory MPs onside
Keep on trucking
Canada’s Covid protestors have a point
Centre of attention
The cosy links between Cambridge and the CCP
Target practice
Britain is still too complacent about Chinese influence
Her father’s daughter
The making of Queen Elizabeth II
Wolf at the door
Italy’s wolves are on the march
Daffodils
Spring is the season of supermarket daffodils. At a pound a bunch, you can deck out your home like Elton…
The Zac Pack
The well-connected group quietly shaping Tory policy
An Olympic task
How China got stuck in a zero-Covid trap
Korea’s anti-feminists
How men’s rights became a big political issue
The abandoned revolution
Has the government lost interest in Brexit?
Fortress New Zealand
Faith in ‘Saint Jacinda’ is starting to fade
