Let’s stop going into space. There’s nothing to see and no one to talk to | Zoe Williams

I’ve nothing against astronauts or scientific innovation. But what’s the point of Artemis II? It is absolutely self-evident to me that space exploration is pointless, and the more urgent the crises besetting this planet we live on, the more pointless it becomes. I can see why people got excited about it in the 1960s, back when the world was young and we still thought there might be little green people out there – who wouldn’t want to meet them? Most serious opinion, however, has now settled o...

By Zoe Williams