Poets of the material world: engineers are the people who make dreams real
An engineer’s achievement of pure utility can also create structures of stunning grace and beauty.
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What the story of Catholic persecution in Britain can teach us about populism and prejudice
This not-so-distant mirror shows how political anxieties are displaced on to minorities.
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How Richard Fairey’s Swordfish plane changed history
If the Swordfish has lived on among British legends of the Second World War, the man whose name the aircraft…
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Infatuation, jealousy, heartbreak, trauma, addiction: when love becomes mental illness
“The merest spark of sexual attraction can cause a fire that has the potential to consume us”.
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I’m married, but we live with flatmates – and I love it
Modern custom dictates that my husband and I should be cocooned in our own little unit, but to me a…
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How (not) to write a sequel to Lord of the Rings
Dwarf FAQs, Sauron truthers and wizards reincarnated as dogs: the increasingly strange attempts to give Lord of the Rings a…
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How Charles de Gaulle made France great again
General de Gaulle believed in France’s destiny, so he made it happen.
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How Emmanuel Macron charmed a nation
Macron sold himself as a kind of human antidepressant pill, the incarnation of optimistic renewal. But who is he really?
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