Columns
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
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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
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas