8-14 October 2021

IN THIS ISSUE

20 Unsafe places

Sophie McBain on the sexual assault crisis in schools

28 Opportunity lost Harry Lambert on a divided Green Party

36 How the web went wrong Richard Seymour on the evolution of the internet

40 System failure

Louise Perry on the Metropolitan Police in disgrace

The reckoning: British schools face their #MeToo moment

42 Who dares leads Ed Smith on the Army’s lessons in moral courage

44 Reality bites Lola Seaton on Jonathan Franzen’s late style

50 His dark materials Kate Mossman talks to the crime writer Ian Rankin

Time’s up: the Greens’ failure

King of tartan noir: Ian Rankin

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