Chronicles of decline
Rather than ignoring the ageing process, Laurie Taylor decides to develop a "Personal Deterioration Index".
Culture
In a word
The verb "to cancel" is being given new life. But who is cancelling whom?
Blood carbon
The industrial revolution led to great progress, but it was fuelled by global injustice.
Book review: The Travel Writing Tribe
A new book maps the changing face of travel writing, once seen as the domain of white middle class men.
Learning from our ancestors w/ Alice Roberts
What can we learn from the burial sites of the earliest Britons? Alice Roberts discusses her new book "Ancestors" and tells us how she came to be a humanist.
Why does every Hollywood baddie need a redemption story?
Cruella de Vil is the latest villain to be transformed into a good-hearted hero. Why can’t we let baddies be baddies?
How statues can bring us together
New statues of singer Vera Lynn and suffragette Emily Wilding Davison show the worth and continued relevance of these public monuments.
Book review: The Hitler Conspiracies
Richard J Evans dissects the untruths emerging out of the Second World War, narratives that continue to influence conspiracies to this day.
Book review: Worldmaking After Empire
Adom Getatchew looks back at the African and Caribbean anticolonialists whose ambitions didn't stop at the nation-state.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: a poet rediscovered
EBB was a towering literary figure of her age. What does her erasure from the canon say about our culture?