New Year
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
Eat well, eat less
Ignore all those food fads, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Time is not a healer
Choosing a school in London is now a political decision
Walking the path of the stupidly rich
Serious Money tracks the excesses and indulgences of those with wealth to burn
Pulsating panorama of a complex decade
A new history of the Interregnum rescues this forgotten period of history from oblivion
Trans activism before medical standards
Professional counselling bodies have sided with Stonewall against standard paediatric practice
The war for wombs
The surrogacy industry has made women’s bodies into a battleground
Is cultural conservatism the key to educational success?
Culture beats race and even class when it comes to pupil performance
In Darwin’s dreamland
A two-year stint on an island in Lake Victoria makes for a poignant and memorable memoir
The stupidity of lockdown revealed society’s nihilism
Why were we content to ruin the lives of so many?
The digital dirty war
Ukraine is partnering with Silicon Valley to digitally desecrate the dead
Those we love, and those we love to hate
Sweet dreams are made of this
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service