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The Room for Best

Geoff Dyer’s Homework shows childhood not as innocence, but as class training—plastic toys, unwritten rules, and a welfare state already fraying at the edges.

Pencil drawing inside prison

No More Cells

They say prisons are overcrowded, as if the cages are too small. As if the problem is spatial. As if all we need is a few more acres of razor wire and reinforced concrete and the crisis will vanish. But prisons aren’t full because we lack space. They’re full because we lack imagination.

Roadworks in London caused by a Thames Water repair.

Drowning in Debt: The Final Failure of Water Privatisation

The £3bn bailout of Thames Water is not a rescue but a reckoning, three decades after privatisation, Britain’s largest water company has collapsed under the weight of debt, greed, and regulatory failure, leaving the public to clean up the mess.