Legal Age of Consent
Missing the point on marriage
We should not further undermine one of our oldest institutions
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
