Columns
The curse of the Next Big Thing label
Picking sport’s winners and losers when they are so young is a mug’s game
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
Bozzo’s team meets a nice girl called Greta, and spends ages over something called a tweet
Cruel to be kind
Validating everyone’s wishes leaves us prone to outbreaks of self-indulgence
Top Guns of the track
Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton might not exactly hate each other, but their relationship is formal verging on chilly
Gandhi: what xe would have done
Seek out dissenting transphobes and punish them without mercy
Welcome back to reality, feminists
Wokeness is less an intellectual position and more a form of wish-fulfilment
Bring back the panjandrums
We need heavyweights to separate good from bad
Acronyms
Acronyms are one of the means by which bureaucracies hide or obfuscate what they do
Lucien Grote: Experimental Playwright
Lucien veers between lamenting modern theatre’s disdain for “truly serious work” and suspecting that it all could have gone a great deal worse
Guru of regurgitation
Time for self-styled “design guru” Stephen Bayley to move on from his erstwhile mentor, monstrous Sir Tel