Jonathan Miller
Death of a polymath
The great British opera director Jonathan Miller has died aged 85. Here is one of his last interviews
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
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
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
