A Point of View

"Landscape made us', writes Sara Wheeler, 'and now, in the dying phase of our divorce from our envir

Tom Shakespeare explains why he can't get enough of University Challenge.Starter for ten, picture ro

AL Kennedy attempts to work out why, and how, everything these days seems to annoy us. But, she says

Zoe Strimpel on the difficulty of deciding whether to have, or not have, children. She describes th

Sarah Dunant argues that if we can't agree on wearing masks in a crowded space, this doesn't bode we

Will Self argues that the car is anything but a source of freedom. While drivers think it gives them

"Who owns a story?" asks Adam Gopnik. "The storyteller? The subject? Or do all stories in some sense

"In the 1880s," writes Sara Wheeler, "the scientific community began to recognise and categorise neu

David Goodhart discusses why integration is a permanent dilemma for multi-ethnic societies. And he w

"Tomorrow's world," writes Zia Haider Rahman, "will be shaped still more by finance, tech, and the m

In the aftermath of the recent report on religious groups in the UK carried out by the Independent I

As thousands of Afghan refugees look to make their home in the UK, Michael Morpurgo tells the story

John Gray on how former British Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour, identified a weakness in the idea th

Sara Wheeler looks at the emotional power of food. "It's regrettable", she writes, "that the link be

'I don't want to find an eight-part drama more interesting than my life', writes Zoe Strimpel.Zoe re

Rebecca Stott responds to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And

Adam Gopnik reflects on the ever-increasing accessibility of the past.He ponders what effect it has

Howard Jacobson turns his thoughts to the unlikely subject of present wrapping.He delves into "Expec

'In the dog days of the pandemic,' writes John Connell, 'I decided the place to recharge my spirit w

Bernardine Evaristo argues that the racist abuse levelled at England players after the final of the