High Fashion
Walk tall in these shoes
If you buy the best kit, it will last much longer
Pop on a party hat
Jazz up your wardrobe with perfect headwear
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
Happy Gothmas
Get your festive Morticia Addams on
Time for Coco
Hannah Betts pays homage to the ever-chic Chanel
Where the Tories must go from here
The Conservative Party must set aside backbiting in favour of building a radical political project that can appeal to young and old alike
The police should stop wasting time on tweets
How have we reached the point where expressing your opinion can consign you to a Kafkaesque nightmare?
At least somebody’s having fun
Ed Davey grows more cheerful the sadder Rishi Sunak gets
It’s called X, not XXX
Elon Musk is wrong to open the door to porn on X
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
A commanding life
Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius. By Iskander Rehman
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
Itchen for fishing
Good fishing, books and beer remind us that not everything is awful
The gender wars have not been won
“No debate” has been defeated — but the debate is still ongoing
