The devils that made me a dandy
Joseph Connolly’s enduring passion for sartorial splendour was driven by a childhood addiction to the glamour of TV
All the things I have never done…
Joseph Connolly has never ridden a bike, drunk a pint of biiter or had a curry. Can you match his epic non-achievements?
Very Amis, very Hampstead
Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero
Goodbye to all that stuff
We used to love filling our homes with possessions. Now, less is more — indeed, it’s everything
Not tickety-boo
Joseph Connolly had never suffered a day’s illness — until he was felled by a “very unglamorous stroke”
Days in the life of the Fab Four
Joseph Connolly reviews One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, by Craig Brown
Filthy shades of grey
Why do people — and men in particular — dress so vilely now?
Raab’s home truths
PMQs: Raab’s back from his holidays but not quite at home
Is Nadine Dorries the best we have?
Love or loathe her, she’s never pretended to be anything other than a populist
All grievance great and small
Why won’t North Yorkshire Police tell us about their Intersectionality Conference?
Who wants to be a teacher?
Lucy Kellaway’s memoir is a must-read for anyone considering the profession
Calm down, dear
The grim history of portraying women as mentally unstable
The belief system doesn’t add up
How the quest to eliminate sex in civil society taps into a dark truth about male power and sexuality
Victim at sixty
How much has really changed in the film industry since the Dirk Bogarde film “came out”?
George Osborne: the British Museum’s highest-profile exhibit?
As the architect of austerity against culture and the arts, is the former Chancellor really the right man for the job?
The judge inside, and on your shoulder
The Public First case is the first in which the application of the apparent bias doctrine to procurement is brought to the fore
School of hard knocks
Young people need to be taught resilience, not how to revel in trauma and fragility