2023
Year of the blackpill
Farewell to 2023 — a year for losing hope
Most Read
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
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 rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane