Columns

The bravery of big corporations

They don’t bother with the flag in their Arab outlets, because Islamic culture is far more progressive

Dead and buried

Why has a much-needed review into coroner’s services been shelved?

Samuel Beckett

A prize-winning old fraud

In search of the right stuff

Why are there so few conservatively-minded novelists?

Pandemic Olympiad

The Tokyo games will be an uncomfortable charade

The regeneration game

A hideous babel of gimmicky buildings that scream: “Me! Me! Me!”

Etta Parsloe

Twitter vigilante

Earning your pinstripes

There are times, even in our dressed-down age, when clothes maketh the deal

Obsessed by fantasy football

To enter a Fantasy Football season is to be as one with Donald Rumsfeld prior to the Iraq War, but with less insight

Turbulent priests

How should the clergy best engage in politics and public disputes?