Mark Gullick
Central American exceptionalism: Costa Rica faces la pandemia
The tiny country’s success at tackling coronavirus
Sea View
“Buy land,” Mark Twain famously advised. “They’ve stopped making it.” A century after Twain’s death, according to an organisation called the Seasteading Institute (SI), production is resumed.
“Seasteading” is a 30-year-old portmanteau word combining homesteading with the unused resource provided by the oceans: the building of small offshore cities planned outside the jurisdiction of any nation state. The idea originated with Ken Neumeyer in his 1981 book, Sailing the Farm, and SI intends to bring the phrase to life by the end of this decade.
Walking the Plank
The government’s hypocrisy over “green issues” is forcing those living on our waterways out of their homes
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?