Fiscal conservative
Have cake, hate cake
The Sun-Chancellor is having his cake, and hating himself for eating it
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
