Columns
Living in Cancerland
Cancer is no joke. But staying cheerful helps
Thus always to tyrants
Actually — assassinating Soleimani was the right thing to do
An oversized addition to a collection of Victoriana
‘As I have now discovered, moving a life-size marble statue is a complicated and expensive business’
Nom aplomb
Cursed by a name
Vote, vote, vote for Comrade Corbyn
Right, volunteers and activists, gents, ladies and genderfluids, settle down and listen up!
Our system is awash with debt. Austrian-school economics explains why
We are experiencing the side effects of a system that accommodates the perverse incentives of governments to spend, without paying any attention to other economic principles
The myth of “military efficiency”
Civilians talk of “military efficiency”. We soldiers know better
Counter-intelligence needs a rethink. Catching spies is not enough
Talk of hybrid war tends to overlook a simple reality: the Cold War may have technically ended, but the main authoritarian regimes born of it have retained their revolutionary essence
Dare call it treason?
Britain’s greedy and cynical political class is colluding with our enemies
In the bleak midwinter
Christmas can be a bleak time of year. While some feel isolated, others are overwhelmed by the need for a perfect family Yuletide when their reality is different
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts