Manners
Hand to mouth
Delicacy, of unknown origins, makes us reluctant to pull plums with our thumbs
Going underground
The everyday misery of modern British life
A tragedy of manners
Is the US endangering its status in Europe?
The man who took the wrong flat white
We urgently need new rules for modern social etiquette
Heaven and hell
Celebrate the return of normal life, but choose your guests with care
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
