Nineteenth-Century
Dazzled by manias and lured by wild gambling
The drives behind the Victorian periodical press and penny literature
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
“Moral debt” is classic watermelon politics
Do left-wing economists believe that there is anything to which wealth redistribution is not the answer?
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender