Stop mining!
Deeper data shafts just produce useless piles of waste
A life in focus
Director Betrand Tavernier was able to admire both blacklisted directors and those who named names
The organised anger of Israel’s Arab citizens
The violence that’s receiving much less media coverage than Gaza
Rogue male
Scoundrel, liar, cheat and toady, George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman is a creation of genius and a bracing antidote to our timid age
Torn in the USA
Purpose, identity and social status, how this book reveals the three things lacking on the shop floor at Amazon
Crowned heads and brass hats
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about military monarchs
Woke of the Rings
The Tolkien society is scanning the author’s work for signs of cishetero amatonormativity
Pitch inversion
Boris Johnson may rue the day he gave a footballer a gong for something other than football
Johanna Martzy/Michael Mann (DG Eloquence)
The fruits of Michael Mann’s musical career is neither one thing nor another; trapped between Weimar modernism and American consumerism
The masses might stone you
My time as the first foreign broadcaster accredited to Mao’s China
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires Diary 7.0
Dominic Hilton on the Instagram influencers in his plaza, conversations with his mother and a terrible death on the streets near his home