London
The resentments and resillience of London’s market traders
For now, the Smithfield Christmas auction is still going ahead. We can’t stop everything, can we?
The trial of the Mangrove Nine
Steve McQueen’s dramatisation of the 1970 trial of the Mangrove Nine is a triumph
Just keep swimming
Those of us who partake in open air swimming should be allowed to return to this miraculous prophylactic
Remembering Lord Nelson
Gawain Towler fondly recalls his local pub as it closes for the second time due to lockdown
Woo-woo wins out
I’ve succeeded in keeping Will in London… for now
Unfinished Business at the British Library
The British Library’s new exhibition on feminism is like being hit with a rolled-up copy of Spare Rib
When you pile tragedy too high, you sell it too cheap
Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery (until 31 October)
An awful warning
Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
All dressed up and raring to go
A brilliant, ambitious volume of art history — but physically difficult to read
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
