The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Thinly-veiled but enjoyable nonsense
Donald Trump should write a novel to at least give him the chance to deliver a bit of payback for this release by Hillary Clinton
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
