Anniversary
Not only a game
This is how it ends: the whimper, or the bang
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
An unaccustomed wine
30 years ago English wine was changed forever, and a vinicultural revolution began
Between Middle Earth and the West
130 years from his birth, what can we learn from Tolkien?
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves at 30
Is this 1991 blockbuster an underrated masterpiece or kitsch nonsense?
An optimistic history of women’s rights
Sexed: A History of British Feminism. Susanna Rustin
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
Letters August-September
To paraphrase the Jeremy Corbyn defence, were the Tory Right present but not involved?
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
