Patricia Hodge
When Irish eyes aren’t smiling
Irish Gothic and Noel Coward romance on the stage, and remembering actress Hayden Gywnne
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
