Rupert Lowe
The sketchwriter’s gift
Kemi has outsourced her research effort to Captain Ketamine
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Medieval treasures of Germany
Aachen and the great temples of medieval Europe seem like vast spiritual power stations
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
