Class
At last, I get to join the class war
Down with the mangies, the most craven and unfree of ruling classes
So long, Sloanes
The upper-middle-class Rangers who epitomised the Eighties have ridden off into the Wiltshire sunset
The tribe that disappeared
The demonisation of the white working class becomes more overt by the day. They are being airbrushed from history
Confessions of the new Grub Street
The money is bad, the hours long and the white wine copious and cheap
Why is Saudi Arabia locking up women’s rights activists?
Women like Loujain al-Hathloul are “premature reformers”: their crime is to demand social change before the state is ready to concede it
Squeaks and bumps
Dominic Hilton reminisces about his father’s hoard of bizarre avant-garde CDs, LPs and cassette tapes
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires diary 5.0
Dominic Hilton offends the fumigation guy and witnesses the death of a former President
Why the narrative on Britain’s role in the slave trade is misleading
Britain’s bleak record with the slave trade makes a horrible story, but it is one not helped by getting it wrong
The NI WhatsApp war
Is a trade body being excluded by Ministers because they’ve criticised the NI protocol?
We aren’t being served
The closure of Jenners of Edinburgh is an object lesson in how to kill the department store
A time to keep silence and time to speak
Nicola Sturgeon offers a PR masterclass in how to bury bad news
Letter to Brezhnev: a lesson for today?
The 1985 film directed by Frank Clarke is a homage not only to Liverpool, but to hope, risk, and love
Drink In to Help Out: Wines from the Western Cape
Henry Jeffreys recommends five wines to support South Africa’s wine industry as it recovers from the aftermath of the pandemic
Post-colonial bad jokes
The whole history of the West is — to confound the simplicities of the woke — one gigantic act of “cultural appropriation”