Features
Place names
Last week a gentle Norfolk waterway got into trouble with Facebook. The problem was its name — Cockshoot Dyke. Facebook’s…
Dangerous waters
The case against Aukus
Fatal attraction
Why do some women find killers irresistible?
The stalemate election
Germany needs to progress beyond Merkel – but will it?
End of the line
It’s time to rethink the queue
Power to the parish
The demise of the Church’s heritage is not inevitable
The warrior myth
Japan won’t save us from China
Backbencher’s notebook
Politicians are supposed to have a survival instinct. Mine didn’t kick in last week, so I had no idea that…
Enter Aukus
The new special relationship is here to stay
All bar none
There’s more to the pub than just drink
Art nouveau
Are NFTs memes – or masterpieces?
Last rights
Assisted suicide is neither painless nor dignified
Payday
Who’s afraid of rising wages?
So long, truckers
How a once fun job lost its charm
Our man in Rwanda
When will Britain wake up to the horror of Paul Kagame’s rule?
Passports
The Egyptologist Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson interprets drawings in a tomb in Thebes as persons queuing up to have passports…
A load of Kabul
Britain’s empty asylum promises
Treehouses
You can’t (and probably shouldn’t) design a treehouse. Treehouses should grow organically, in every sense: they must be made of…
Fine line
Can cartoons be both funny – and diverse?
The assetocracy
Why politicians are competing to bribe the affluent
Full circle
How the left thought they were right to fight the war on terror
Boosterism
Third jabs need to be rolled out right away
Letter from Kabul
The Taliban Cultural Commission sounds a contradiction in terms but for all foreign journalists it’s the first stop in the…
Sweet and sour
The hell of London’s ‘American’ candy stores
Tales from the Gulag
Why I’m helping survivors tell their stories
