Eating
Rhodes scholars
Lisa Hilton enjoys a simple and superlative Greek-Italian taverna in the Aegean
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
“Moral debt” is classic watermelon politics
Do left-wing economists believe that there is anything to which wealth redistribution is not the answer?
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same