Alfred Hitchcock
The men with the megaphone
A new history of movie directors is full of insight, felicitous phrases and subtle put-downs
Kirk Douglas and cancel culture
Do we believe all stories as true, or presume innocence until proven guilty?
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
