Getting a television changed my life
Living without a TV had several notable side-effects: we’d read more, and sometimes, even have conversations
From Gaucho to Rive Gauche and Back Again
Dominic Hilton discovers the extraordinary life and times of “Gaucho Laird”, R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires diary
Dominic Hilton reminisces on his past few weeks in the lively Argentinian capital
The comings and goings of “Club Cupido”
Dominic Hilton recalls the cast of characters at a Buenos Aires club de barrio
You Know, Thingamabob
A lockdown memoir: Surprising conversations with my father
Nowhere to hide
The struggles of hiding in a foreign country
All Booked Up
Is there a cure for bibliomania?
Failing to escape Brexit in Buenos Aires
You can’t escape entitled Brits whingeing about Brexit, even in Argentina. But you may encounter the ghosts of Nazis
The world turned upside down
Dominic Hilton survives in crazy Argentina by not caring about its fate
Linguistic confusion
Dominic Hilton has more trouble with English than Spanish in Argentina
Hail to the Chief (Part III)
Graham Stewart talks to Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president was exercised in the first half of the twentieth century, from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR
The National Trussed
The National Trust fails to re-educate its members, and a children’s home lectures us on white privilege
Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s ‘Letters’ Revisited
Letters to a Young Contrarian: a twentieth century retrospective by a man who saw himself as a sixties radical
Will Boris Johnson be the last Prime Minister of the UK?
The prime minister sees himself as the greatest unionist that has ever occupied Downing Street, yet it is he who is bringing the Union to the brink
A circuit break to the consensus
Does Starmer attacking government policy make it harder or easier for Tory rebels?
The extraordinary life of Jan Morris
The end of one writer’s life as a vivid dream
Altogether enough enjoyment
Venice after people
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching
The spirit of Liverpool’s stories
Liverpool’s at ease with itself, the south should be too
The normalisation of Trump
Due to the Democrats’ efforts to foster division, Trump still has a fighting chance