Davos
We’ll always have Davos
It’s been failing every year since it began but we do need it — or something like it
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
