Error has no honorary positions
What the Booker binning Emma Nicholson means for the public square
A little bit of curve
In praise of pop smut
Has trench warfare on trans issues come to an end?
Good things can come out of junked changes to the GRA
All you need is luck
Everything with The Beatles happened at double time, thrilling but draining too, says Sarah Ditum
The only thing to do is dance
When things are desperate, you don’t want to be the audience, you want to be the show
Losing my head over Catherine
How the musical sensation, Six, uncovers more than just the stories of Henry VIII’s wives
The “real” Labour Party
Since Blair doesn’t seem to count for many members, they have no positive model of Labour in power
Calculated absurdity
I want to listen to music that sounds like the dumb hopefulness of being young that I once couldn’t wait to rid myself of, says Sarah Ditum
American Dirty Tricks
When white American author Jeanine Cummins wrote a novel about Mexican refugees a critical firestorm erupted
Charlie’s cardboard feminists fall flat
Bad jokes, no chemisty, lame action: the snoozathon that’s not woke enough
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
After the Cass Review
Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
