First Thoughts: The British pet obsession, solving the lorry driver crisis, and yet another statue scandal
The nation’s concern for Pen Farthing’s animals might have more to do with Victorian attitudes of those who are “deserving”…
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The nation’s concern for Pen Farthing’s animals might have more to do with Victorian attitudes of those who are “deserving”…
ByThe Oxford philosopher on porn, Plato, and how feminism turned away from the plight of the worst-off women.
ByA year ago, even raising the possibility of a lab leak seemed unacceptable. But public sentiment in the West is…
ByThere is so much lacking. Financial security, happiness, pictures on the walls, space, love. Not to mention trousers.
ByThe invitation seems like a good idea until Saturday dawns, and I am neither looking nor feeling my best.
ByI don’t mean like an image of the Virgin Mary in an Italian hill town, visible only to true believers.…
ByOne of the most delightful things about Brighton is that every bus has someone’s name on the front, resurrecting the…
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The former Conservative cabinet minister discusses how pro-European Tories can rebuild.
ByThe disappointment – even after this year of disappointments – was sharp and piercing. We are all tired of putting on…
ByI often experience autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR. It starts with a tingling around the head coupled with a sensation of utter calm.
ByThe human rights campaigner reflects on cancel culture and life as an activist.
ByA sprightly step and a fairly steep downhill slope, and what do you get? A fall.
ByEven the sound of My Bloody Valentine playing live cannot compete with my alarms.
ByThe life and legacy of the poet and New Statesman literary editor, who has died at the age of 90.
ByThe Canadian New Yorker writer discusses the political power of our voices.
ByAfter a year of longing for a return to “normality”, I find I don’t want it after all – at…
ByWatching Ridley Scott’s The Martian, I feel a sudden affinity with Matt Damon eating his umpteenth meal of the same old same old.
ByI fear the return will not be a simple reunion with my old joys, but a reckoning with all the joys…
ByThe British novelist discusses why our fixation on “wellness” grows as the planet around us decays.
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