David Smith
Spain and me
David Smith on why the years following Franco’s death will always hold a place in his heart
Arafat and me
David Smith on the time he spent with Yasir Arafat, the former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
McCain and Me
David Smith reminisces on his relationship with John McCain
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
Letters August-September
To paraphrase the Jeremy Corbyn defence, were the Tory Right present but not involved?
Podcasting while Britain burns
OK, OK, it’s all very deplorable, but Britain’s right wing bloggers still have to make a living
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
