The State of It
Why there is a shortage of drivers in the UK.
Why public schoolboys aren’t fit to run the country.
EU citizens who have applied for settled status in Britain are being threatened with deportation.
Why is English spelling so weird?
All work and no play makes gaming dull, boy.
Nooooooo, whyyyyyy. Farewell to Carrot in a Box champion Sean Lock.
Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid.
How to boost your motivation with neuroscience. A neurosurgeon shares his simple way for overcoming fears. Oliver Burkeman’s advice for time management.
Our never-ending empathy for everything is backfiring. A timely read not long after Malala—Malala—was being called out on Twitter for not speaking out quickly enough about the plight of Afghan women and girls. (Meanwhile, she was writing to heads of state and organising evacuations while recovering from surgery.)
I have to burn everything I achieved.
We tried to be joyful enough to deserve our new lives.
China is constructing fantasy versions of Uyghur culture.
The Little Ice Age was caused by the death of 55 million indigenous people.
Madagascar is on the brink of climate change-induced famine.