Twilight with Venus
Henry Miller spent the last four years of his life hopelessly in love with a Playboy model 60 years his junior
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
