Over the top with Boris
The prime minister is trying to portray the Covid pandemic as a war. It isn’t one
The Silicon Valley English Dictionary
Twitter’s engineers agree that prejudice is hard-coded in our language
Sex and violence: Titian’s Metamorphoses
The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July
A feast, plain and simple
You wait ages for a decent Irish cookbook, then two arrive together, says Melanie McDonagh
A foodie in his element
The author is evenhanded and accurate about the nouvelle cuisine movement, says Paul Levy
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching
The Conservative party’s autumn of discontent
It is a bad sign when Tory MPs say they will vote for their government with “a heavy heart”
It’ll all be ended by Christmas
Don’t say ‘Protect the NHS’ three times in front of a mirror
Beware of Bad Ideas
The democratic state has a duty to act as an ideological gate keeper to protect society
How not to earn a living
More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer
Unvarnished tyranny
This is perhaps the only book I have yet read about Amin which gives anything like an accurate assessment of who he was
End of the fiesta?
Christopher North worries that lockdown has caused an extinction-level crisis
What is MAGA America thinking: eavesdropping on the Deplorables
Contrary to what left-wing commentators might think, Steve Bannon’s podcast is no haven for fascists or white supremacists