Octopus
Monster Munch
It’s time to embrace a Galician classic
Bull market
José Tomás is a titan of the bullring, but does he live up to his reputation?
Literary festivals: sheer hell in a tent
To make people laugh for an hour is good business sense — but it says nothing about writing, or creativity, or art
The police are enabling Islamic intolerance
Where can we provoke if not at Speakers’ Corner?
There is an alternative
The Church should invest in parishes and ministry if it wants to reach a new audience
Do Conservative front runners always lose?
It’s always hard to tell who’ll win and who’ll be sent to the glue factory
Seeing the big picture
The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
It’s no kind of night life
Why does Britain turn into a pumpkin around 6pm?
Messi to Aston Villa?
The joyous anarchy of football transfer gossip
Erwin Schulhoff: Violin sonatas (Orfeo/FHR)
Virtuosity amidst violence
A cynical man without any plan
Boris Johnson was an opportunist Prime Minister whose gambler’s luck ran out