Billy Bunter
Boris Bunter
Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
Let’s change the cultural meaning of the penis
Our genitals do not entitle us to anything
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
