Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Christmas? My arse!
Seething about Santa, sofagate and the Common effing Entrance
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
