Class
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
In defence of landlords
Know your place in my property portfolio
Can Channel 4 shake-up Super League?
The relationship between rugby league and television has never been easy. Now it’s Channel 4s turn to shake things up
Tom’s curious heirs
Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
