Coffee
The rise and fall of an anti-capitalist café
What if — and I hope you’re sitting down — capitalism works better?
Gender gentrifiers
The Starbucks theory of sexual identity
No coffee, please, but Ethiopia can burn
Ethiopia, the home of coffee, falls apart under the world’s muddled gaze while Portugal implements arbitrary Covid-19 restrictions on caffeine consumption
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
