Chronicle of a political disaster long foretold
The man, dressed in full urban-guerrilla black attire, complete with knapsack, helmet, goggles, gloves and hammer, but wearing the iconic yellow fluorescent vest as
Brought to book
Mathematics publishing is a soft touch. The publisher usually hasn’t a clue, so they send the manuscript to someone like me to comment on.
Bloody liberties
"Amazon’s puff for On Freedom says that Sunstein takes a “pathbreaking” approach to the subject. In fact, confounding ability with freedom is an old
Bear with a sore head
"Keir Giles suggests what the West’s policy towards Moscow should look like if it is to be guided by reality rather than hopes or
A squarer mile
For better or worse, that City has undergone a revolution. Its old guard has been seen off, or paid off
An election in India ignites old enemies
While India remains, formally at least, a secular republic, the last few years have seen that ideal become increasingly far from reality
Amritsar: beginning of the end of Empire
The true casualty figures are still hotly disputed 100 years after the Punjab massacre, but its real legacy was the slow death of the
Adam Dant: A wry eye on the city
Adam Dant's detailed drawings poke fun at cosmopolitan life