Basil Fawlty
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
Are we watching a Stalinist show trial, with hitherto dissident figures loudly recanting any support for past regimes?
Triumph of the horrible game
Michael Henderson reviews The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt
All you need is luck
Everything with The Beatles happened at double time, thrilling but draining too, says Sarah Ditum
High notes go wrong
Flying is a macho thing for musicians. It shows they are in demand and living the good life
‘Her penis’ and other facts we all should know
Josephine Bartosch explains how the urge not to cause offence has plunged the UK into a “gender theocracy”
How I discovered secondhand books
A home with books is a launching pad for a life well lived, says Daniel Johnson