Social Sport
The games people play
The fascination with esoteric sports with quirky rules and limited spread
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Is Georgia approaching its Euromaidan?
New attempts to curb the activities of NGOs have stirred pro-EU feeling
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Failing universities
What has gone wrong in British higher education?
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
A stern telling-off
Rachel Reeves has had enough of these misbehaving Tories
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
