Jeeves and Wooster
The enduring appeal of Jeeves and Wooster
Ben Schott’s new novel is hugely welcome, but thankfully it will never threaten to obscure the genius of the canon
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?
Buildings for butchers
How should we judge the grandoise building projects of murderous dictators?
Fall into the gin trap
Nothing is better than a clean spirit
The failures of Boris
The Prime Minister is responsible for most of the things that have gone wrong
Whitehall shirks the blame game
Are civil servants the blameless dupes of “partygate”?
Beauties and the beasts
Our urge to anthropomorphise animals obscures the fact that we are all part of the same complex ecosystem
Don’t mention the war
It’s wrong to cite the Ukraine conflict as the principal cause of soaring prices
The false euphoria of dysphoria
Pink News presents breast removal as “pure trans joy” in a new video
Pulsating panorama of a complex decade
A new history of the Interregnum rescues this forgotten period of history from oblivion
Timely reminder of the true price of oil
‘Disorder’ argues convincingly that world history now hinges on the price of oil