Overseas aid
Is the World Service superfluous, or a vital adjunct of British diplomacy, wonders Oscar Edmondson
Art for art’s sake – and then some
It’s payback time: women, artists from ethnic minorities and non-western traditions are taking over the exhibition schedules. On the heels…
Side lines
Think of pop music as being like the parable of the sower. These days the seed falling on stony ground…
Real life
The lady who walks her dog past my horses every day was obviously eager to tell me something. I have…
Low life
It’s been all go. After breakfast Treena brought a basin of warm water, a bar of soap and a face…
Domino effect
The Beasts is a rural psychological thriller from Spain that has won many awards across Europe and even though we…
On the sick list
Sunday-night dramas on the two main terrestrial channels definitely aren’t what they used to be. Not so long ago, you…
A pulse but no heart
The murderous odyssey of Bonnie and Clyde is a tricky subject for a musical because the characters are such loathsome…
Make mine a triple
It does no harm, once in a while, to assume that the creators of an opera actually know what they’re…
Cheap thrills
Robert Jackman on the rise of the modern British B-movie
Desire and sacrifice
Eliot guarded her privacy closely, but her novels explore themes of sacrifice and restraint, and her heroines are studies in the impossibility of having it all
Quick thinking in the dark
The answer is, we shall never know – but one Norwegian colonel’s quick decision may have ensured Churchill’s premiership and the success of Dunkirk
Growing old disgracefully
Five women in their nineties dine together monthly, keeping loneliness at bay with gossip, advice and reminiscence
Out of the depths
Sexually assaulted as a teenager, Christiana Spens describes her life of perpetual anxiety – until the birth of her son ‘transforms everything’
Alexis the Great
Toby Young is struck by how prescient Tocqueville’s observations have proved on the social and political structures of the many countries he visited
Congress flattens TikTok CEO. So why won’t Biden ban his app?
Thursday was a sickening day for TikTok. Its CEO Shou Zi Chew came to Congress flanked by low-energy and likely…
Liz puts the Trussketers in the Lords
Even out of office, she’s still causing chaos. Details of Liz Truss’s resignation honours list have been leaked to the…
The trans counter-counter protest
On Saturday morning last week, the Save Our Children (SOC) coalition, which included Christian Lives Matter (CLM) supporters, gathered at…
Why Russian priests are being expelled from a monastery in Kyiv
In my hometown we have three Orthodox churches, two of which are formally aligned with the Moscow patriarchate. They mostly…
Love diversity, equity, and inclusion – or else
A decade ago, when I returned to University in my home state of Queensland to train as a teacher, a…
Deutsche Bank’s collapse would be a threat to the whole eurozone
It could be next month. It might be next week. Or it might well happen over the weekend. But today’s…
Why Haiti’s problems are America’s problems
Haiti tends to not get much attention in the American press, but it should. The country has descended into a…
