Hugo Rifkind
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from the aqueducts, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths and town planning
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Athenian ambrosia
Savour a culinary renaissance in Greece
Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
Nature neglected
In this election green policy only get airtime when it can be linked to jobs
Beyond the boundary
Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
Addicted in art
What role should suffering play in creativity and the consumption of art?
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
