Tristram Shandy
Tristram and the tyrants
Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists
The blessings on our doorsteps
It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
