Columns
How to get ahead in academia
The Russell Group is riddled with EDI rot
The long-gone queens of Grub St
In the good old days, powerful publicity directors could guarantee coverage for books
Mean Mr Sheen’s jibe
Held up as a paragon of virtue, he reassuringly confirms he remains as catty as the rest of us
The growth imperative
The best way to win back voters is to make them richer by boosting the economy
On Linden Green
The reverential nature writer
“It’s official”
The British have become a nation of mental serfs
Faith and free speech
The law on blasphemy is toxic: It protects free speech until you provoke others to use force.
Idiots and Italian art
I have to bite my tongue or risk being thrown off the flight to London
Time to bite the crypto-bullet?
Compared to Rachel Reeves’ dubious record, Bitcoin looks like a storm-proof harbour
Glorious half-century
When it’s good it’s very good indeed
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived