Stade de France
Liverpool, lies and France’s shame
The Stade de France fiasco bodes ill for forthcoming international sports events
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse