Chris Chibnall
Doctor Who?
To save the next generation, don’t listen to the fans
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
