Class
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
In defence of landlords
Know your place in my property portfolio
Is Britain’s future still being determined in Europe?
The European Court of Human Rights continues to shape policy here in the UK
Don’t let the government poach your pouch
A moral panic is brewing over nicotine pouches
Latte populism
Nigel Farage wanders over to the wrong side of the tracks, clutching his coffee
Why did the Eye look away?
Surely a title known for investigative journalism would be concerned by a series of trans scandals
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
The BBC can be a drag
The priorities of its reporting, especially on gender issues, can be absurd
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
Hungary: treading a fine line
Can it stay equidistant from the great powers while maintaining trade connectivity?
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
