On Drink
Gentleman of Médoc
This wine is ready to drink but can readily be put down to hibernate for another half decade before being savoured by the Shepherd Market salonnières
To catch a culture thief
A vast global market in stolen and forged art and artefacts has only grown in the context of the pandemic, but technology and international policing may be catching up
Welcome back to reality, feminists
Wokeness is less an intellectual position and more a form of wish-fulfilment
History, fans, noise and passion
Football fans know a Proper Club when they see one
Our deepest, darkest fears
The transgressive, transmedial and transnational nature of the Gothic genre
Empty forecourts, smoking abattoirs
The prime minister does not see why problems are his department
Team Europe
In the Ryder Cup the US have the superstars, the major titles, the private jets. Europe have team spirit
Criminalising Christians
Activists demand the most religiously repressive law the UK has seen in centuries
The elephant in the classroom
Imagining itself to be impartial, the “neutral” RE curriculum imposes its own claim
Turning caretakers into killers
Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying Bill offers no real safeguards for the most vulnerable patients
History hasn’t ended
Francis Fukuyama got it very wrong
The myth of the plucky Brit
Notwithstanding our favourite WWII stories, derring-do doesn’t win wars