Columns
Pastoral pleasures
Delighting and relaxing away from the city
Lucky numbers
In football, a number is more than just a number
Coles to Newcastle
Showbiz vicars, lefty luvvies and a brush with death
J’adore les bleus
Antoine Dupont makes the game look easy
Agony and ecstasy
The simultaneous glory and tragedy of sport
How to survive Twitter
Shame, anonymity and never saying sorry
Judging the judges
Are Appeal Court judges always superior jurists? The jury is out …
Rishi is upset again
The PM’s in a massive sulk – maybe starting a new hedge fund would cheer him up?
Slut-shaming Barbie
Dental woes and devoted dolls
Stand up for Karen
We ought to be prepared to confront rulebreakers
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
