New Year
Year of the blackpill
Farewell to 2023 — a year for losing hope
Self-help with Samuel Johnson
Improving ourselves takes good principles, not mere goals
New Year’s Rishilutions
Can he turn things around? Probably not
New Year’s writing resolutions
What I will try to improve in 2023
Album of the Year: 2021
2021 has yielded more memorable albums than you can count on the fingers of two hands
Ring in the new…please
Krug is king: Christopher Pincher on the perfect champers to brighten your family bubble through the dark winter months
Burgundy bargains
Thomas Woodham-Smith mixes gluttony and business
The worst hangovers in culture
Rest assured that these types had it considerably worse than you, says Alexander Larman
Happy New Year, bigots
Failure to comply with my New Year’s resolutions will be considered a hate crime
Old Romeo’s Almanac
Our theater gossip columnist spills the beans on his fellow actors and gives us some predictions for the new year
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
