Counterpoints
Putin’s playthings
Nato’s response to the Skripal poisoning has revealed its disunity
Penny foolish
The 1p piece is useless, but it is less than half a century since it was bright and new
Dürer’s diversion
A Milan exhibition shows how much Dürer was influenced by the Italian masters
Unsafe space
How can students win the battle for free speech on campus?
The animal vote
Animal welfare is a political open goal — and Brexit is a one-off chance to establish better standards in the UK
Numbers game (contd.)
The Monty Hall problem requires clear, unbiased thinking as new information comes in
My private Paris
Get a gallery to yourself in Paris: pick an unfashionable country or a passed-over period
A new Europe calls
There is a rare breed who go to Germany in February: we love to overheat in flagstoned, candle-lit Weinstuben, and freeze in baroque churches and sudden blizzards
Rural bliss
Although nature is not built for man, the pleasures it affords are instinctive and infinite. The beauty of the natural world transcends that of any urban space
School sex ordeals
Sexual harassment is happening in schools and universities across the country. With all our concern about victims of the past, let’s not overlook the present
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?