Philipp Felsch
A glorious flowering of difficult ideas
Two newly translated books evoke chapters of the divided and discarded history of Germany’s capital
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
