Columns

A sound of Rowling thunder

Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock

What makes a gentleman tick?

Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches

Shock of the new

There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick

Why the goal glut?

Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting

A decade of economic disaster

Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure

Mirabel Chevenix

Grande dame

“Problematic” art

This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought

All in the family

Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions

Winning sinner

That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it

Consider the way of the tiger

We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch