oppression
How the world turns a blind eye to African slavery
Investigating the slave-owners of the Sahara, where more than 100,000 people were born into inherited captivity
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured