Celebrities
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
The celebrity trap
Women are punished for becoming the objects they are required to be
Give up already, Eddie
Eddie Izzard’s unconvincing political career is going nowhere
The objectification of Britney Spears
The Women in Me is a powerful and disturbing perspective on misogyny
Going viral
From tumbles off the stage to the anxieties of age
In defence of the Ingram-Moores
Don’t blame them; blame yourself
Perfect for the part
Oompa Loompas and a newfound enthusiasm for association football
Coolness and cancellation
We should not just people with problematic pasts by how much we like their work
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
