Lester Piggott
Death of a sporting hero
Lester Piggott was the greatest jockey — bar none
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
