apocalypse
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Doomsday is not a day of the week
Sometimes, we dwell on tomorrow at the expense of eternity
Militantly waiting for the end of time
Sunni or Shia, Muslim or Christian, modern or pre-modern — messianism retains a potent attraction
Apocalypse soon?
Civilisations always rise and fall — ours is no exception
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
