Some countries like consensus. England likes a feud. Whether it’s politics, social class or geography, English public life has long been characterised by the comforting discomfort of choosing sides. In England, to be in favour of one is often to be against another: choice, belief, or person. Rivalry seems to be more than just a habit of taste, but also a way of creating one’s identity. © Tokuo Nobuhiro via Pexels That is why the old musical oppositions are still relevant. Oas

Some frontiers arrive with flags, others arrive with paperwork. The Moon, it turns out, may be the latter. © Drawn by the Moon by NASA Images For years, the future of space governance was framed in imaginative terms, evoking colonies, explorers, and “aliens” from distant worlds. After all, men have not revisited the Moon since 1972. Yet the modern space age has a way of making fiction look premature. [Today, rocket launches are no longer rare events, private companies are pl