Bread and circuses
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
