Society
The comings and goings of “Club Cupido”
Dominic Hilton recalls the cast of characters at a Buenos Aires club de barrio
Training for nothing
Nick Cohen laments the pandemic’s effect on competitions
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
What made eighteenth century Britain such an innovative society?
And how did Britain become a trendsetting nation?
Soho, Soho, it’s off to walk we go…
Is pedestrianisation the way to reopen Soho?
It’s not racist not to support Black Lives Matter
Ella Whelan explains why we all need to start talking, in person, again
Beware the shaming and guilt-tripping bingefest
Events in the US have led to a(nother) moment of reckoning for race relations spawning a similar gamut of emotions, some justified, other less so
Should we listen to writers about their own work?
As Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads is set to air this evening, Alexander Larman ponders the relationship between a living writer and their works
Decline of the sclerotic West
Richard Reinsch reviews The Decadent Society, by Ross Douthat
Sebastian Horsley: equal parts Byronic dandy, Dickensian grotesque and Wildean poseur
Alexander Larman remembers his time with the decadent author, Sebastian Horsley, 10 years after his death
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
