The British
Brits abroad are still so damn…British
After being marooned in Portugal for so long, thank goodness they are
Auf Wiedersehen, Britain
A German radio broadcaster on what he’s learnt about the British
Unfinest Hour
Our character has been all too gruesomely on display in our response to the pandemic
When it’s great to be British
The country of understatement and the stiff upper lip responds well in a crisis
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
