Humour
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
My Hunk of Destiny
A tale of love and levelling up
Carry Ons: Phwoar! What a lovely set of hits
Grim, funny glimpses of a Britain in decline
Drag queens teach vital lessons
The last thing these people want is attention
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy