Book Review
Silver spoons and sob stories
What makes an heiress?
Touchy-feely and not that new really
We’re more than our emotions
Empire of the Imagination
Historical metafiction
Buccaneer of the Antarctic
The heroic age of polar exploration ended with Shackleton’s death
The hidden greatness of snowflakes
Hannah Jewell’s blog-post-turned-self-help-book says we should all aspire
He got out alive
From Belsen concentration camp to eminent British sculptor
Penny for your thoughts
Laurie Penny writes a book about how to deliver change while actual feminists are getting their hands dirty
For the fellas
In What Do Men Want?, Nina Power crafts a peace treaty between the sexes
Murders for January
While away the winter with would-be classics
The fit and famous
To strive, to struggle, to sweat, is to be human
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
