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 dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
The Windsor Framework must fall so that Brexit can live
The EU (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill can restore the integrity of the United Kingdom
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
