Cigars
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Misappropriating motherhood
La Leche League and the pornification of breastfeeding
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
