Prague
Velvet Revolution
Exploring Czech wine in Prague
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
