Subbuteo
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
