Karl Pilkington
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
