Culture War
Can a Twitter campaign topple the BBC?
‘Defund the BBC’ will probably be denied a platform with the institution it seeks to abolish
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Sticky situation
Everyone’s Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe was different. All were revolting
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
