Humour
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
The menopause is no joke
It is time to stop being so facetious about women’s health
The Committee of the Edwin Savage Society
What arouses such fascination in this obscure literary figure?
Yule live to regret this
On seasonal stress
The sad reign of Ian Hislop
Appointed for his youth, he has become symbolic of cultural gerontocracy
Saving Gaza with a Queer intifada
Saving the world with slam poetry
Dave lords it
Red Meat Rishi is looking forward to Christmas
Birthday bash
Claudia Savage-Gore frets over how best to entertain a troop of 10-year-olds
How YouTube lost its fun
There’s a difference between maturing and betraying who you were
Coarseness and viciousness
James Gillray could be cruel but was a fine propagandist
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
