Games
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The games people play
The fascination with esoteric sports with quirky rules and limited spread
Arsenic and old lace
Autumn arrives and nostalgia descends
Enduring enjoyment
The nostalgia of live sport continues to live on
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
