Chain Restaurant
Creeping mediocrity
A dismal lunch at a chain restaurant woefully short of theatreland glamour
Anyone for Woolton pie?
Enduring a taste of the Blitz spirit at a chain restaurant with no butter, no jam and few staff
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
