Features
Staged: a handful of VIP events is no substitute for normality
Uncertainty is crippling our cultural life
The mysterious world of pigeon racing
Pigeon racing isn’t much of a spectator sport. Race birds are driven to the ‘liberation point’, where they’re released to…
Is anywhere in the world still safe for China’s Uighurs?
Is anywhere safe for the Uighurs?
Don’t pity me for living in London
Don’t pity me for living in London
Angela’s ashes: Merkel is leaving the EU in chaos
Merkel is leaving the EU in chaos
Why is modern architecture so ugly?
Why is modern architecture so ugly?
How the Lancet lost our trust
How the Lancet lost our trust
The problem with the Pride flag
Last month, the Pride flag was updated by the Intersex Equality Rights UK campaign group — the simple rainbow was…
Even a robot assistant can’t help you make sense of Japan
Understanding Japan is a life’s work
Triumph of the Taleban: the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan
Their patience is paying off
What Sweden's political crisis says about Europe's collapsing centre
What the rise of Nooshi Dadgostar reveals about Europe’s collapsing centre
The house mafia: the scandal of new builds
New-build developers are acting like a cartel
The new Covid divide: one rule for the elite, another for the rest of us
Politicians made the rules – so they know how to bend them
The new leviathan: the big state is back
Boris and Biden have placed their faith in the power of big government
The art of government: what politicians’ paintings say about them
What politicians’ paintings say about them
The fraudulent business of recycling
The fraudulent business of recycling
The true cost of cheap money: an interview with Andy Haldane
Andy Haldane on the true cost of cheap money
Covid has warped our collective attitude to death
Covid or no Covid, we’re all going to snuff it
Why it’s boom time for bitterns
Bitterns are booming, both literally and metaphorically. These handsome brown birds from the heron family make a noise quite unlike…
Is lockdown’s tech bubble about to burst?
The tech industry is braced for the post-pandemic blues
The Sun goes down
Where did it all go wrong for the Sun?
What makes a pasty Cornish?
This week, world leaders are doing what countless Brits do every summer: unpacking their bags in a charming corner of…
How China won over the Middle East
How China won over the Middle East
Let hymn in: the silencing of indoor singing is senseless
The silencing of indoor singing is senseless
A second home in Cornwall is nothing to be proud of
A second home in Cornwall is nothing to be proud of
