Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
