Sue Perkins
Sue her
A mad week of misgendering, arson, and Wetherspoons coming out
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
Small boats and big problems
The asylum issue is not going away, and Keir Starmer must face it soon
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
