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
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Sweet magic in Hokkaido
Sushi for breakfast, crisps for dessert and delicious chocolate
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
