Friendship
Breaking the bro code
A new film provides an unusually sympathetic portrait of dislocated masculinity
Crenelations with friends
What playing Carcassonne taught me about my pals
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Our informal attachments
On the importance of friendship
Be more Wham!
What men today can learn from the success of a 1980s pop duo.
In praise of friendship
Love for friends becomes love for the world
What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about death
Mourning and moving furniture
Abed and me
David Smith recalls past conflicts between the Palestinians and the Israelis, and a special friend who kept him alive
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties