Class
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Decline of the underclass
In the 21st century, London has lost its own internal logic
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
A working class hero?
Luke Littler should be allowed to be himself and not a culture war lightning rod
My war stories
The role of the war film in British cinema
A class act?
Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience
Mugged by a mud-caked spud
Farmers’ markets are a rip-off aimed at food snobs and posturing fools with more money than sense
In defence of package holidays
Uno beero por favor!
People of class?
Enough with the inequalities Olympics
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
