Clara Martinez Alberola
No Brexit transition extension – bluff or brinkmanship?
This is a good time to bury bad news, so why the shortage of shovels?
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books