Columns
Not only a game
This is how it ends: the whimper, or the bang
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
Scruffy splendour
Holy Week showcases a very Venetian combination of Renaissance splendour and DIY
“Forced”
Here they walk, they can do no other
Steering clear of titfer tat
We now are seeing the first flowering of a head-dress renaissance
Why Meghan is my role model
The public needs to get to know the real Meghan
Existential questions
The Conservative Party has to come up with some compelling answers if it is to survive
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Gregory Snaith: Little Magazine Editor
Only Gregory seemed prepared to upset the applecart
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
