Features
Dating stinks
Why I went looking for love in the armpits of strange men
The power trap
What British ‘influence’ and EU ‘power’ really mean
Northern overexposure
Manchester isn’t downtrodden, whatever Andy Burnham says. Quite the opposite, in fact
The Romantic poets
People can be mightily protective of their Romantic poets. When I worked at the Keats Shelley House, overlooking the Spanish…
The Romantic poets
People can be mightily protective of their Romantic poets. When I worked at the Keats Shelley House, overlooking the Spanish…
The age of Hillary
What to expect if – when – a second Clinton finally hacks her way to the top
To a Turkish president
There was a young fellow from Ankara Who was a terrific wankera Till he sowed his wild oats With the…
Jeeves and the Cap that Fits
A story about Bertie Wooster and a man called The Donald, with apologies to P.G. Wodehouse
Poles apart
Poland is furiously divided – but it’s not in the grip of ‘hyper-nationalism’
Labour’s England problem
My party needs to stop being scared of patriotism
Private fears
Prep schools are a soul-sapping waste of money
Brazil Notebook
Ipanema, Brazil Another Sunday night, yet another episode of Game of Thrones drowned out by pot-banging and angry folk yelling…
A QC’s guide to cocaine
Drug-taking is less glamorous when you know how the trade really works
Verdi
Verdi has a peculiar if not unique place in the pantheon of great composers. If you love classical music at…
To a Turkish president
There was a young fellow from Ankara Who was a terrific wankera Till he sowed his wild oats With the…
Verdi
Verdi has a peculiar if not unique place in the pantheon of great composers. If you love classical music at…
To a Turkish president
There was a young fellow from Ankara Who was a terrific wankera Till he sowed his wild oats With the…
Boris needs you!
The former mayor of London makes his case for Brexit
Arrest
The sun always grabs us by surprise its yolky wash on a pub wall the clumsy spill round the black…
Lumped with Trump
His choice of running mate could heal the rift with the neocons
The internet’s war on free speech
The web was meant to empower us all. Right now, it’s empowering censors
Carry on campus
British higher education is in a boom that’s bound to go bust
Guilty displeasures
It is now entirely cool to adore the uncool. But what about the things we can’t admit to not enjoying?
The death of the funeral
I mourn for the traditional ceremony
Bullfighting
Looking at the programme for the feria of San Isidro in Madrid this month (bullfights are being held on 31…
