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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions