V&A
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Impossible things before breakfast
At the V&A the lines between madness and sanity are blurred
Alice in blunderland
The V&A reckons Alice in Wonderland is a self-help manual in the sex-war rather than the daydreams of an old Oxford perv
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
