Noma
Is New Noma really a world beater?
A top-rated restaurants leaves a nasty taste
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
