James Walton

Thinking inside the box | 16 May 2019

Plus: The Virtues shows, yet again, that nobody does visceral like Shane Meadows

issue 18 May 2019

These days, a common way of introducing radio news items is with the words ‘How worried should we be about…?’ The trouble with this formula is not just the strange notion that anxiety has apparently become some sort of moral duty — even a badge of honour. It’s also that we generally know what the answer will be: we should be very worried indeed.

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