Summer Holiday
A cynical attack on the British holiday
The government’s new scheme is worse than useless
Holidays take a pounding
An entertaining new history of British tourism is well timed
Blood and beauty
Bullfighting magnificence in Santander
Oldies made the best holiday companions
A trio of 20th century novels each offer a different desideratum for the discerning lounger
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
