Features
Unequal battle
Thomas Piketty and Deirdre McCloskey can’t both be right about inequality. But I can’t argue with either of them
Flashman lives!
Why it’s time for a Cad of the Year Award
Spam, spam, spam
Junk email is 20 years old – and bigger than ever
Goodwood Festival of Speed
You smelt them, it was said of the Mongol hordes, before you heard them, and by the time you heard…
Landings
On our anniversary, you drag the sofa-bed into the old conservatory. The January moon swells to cliché and under a…
Landings
On our anniversary, you drag the sofa-bed into the old conservatory. The January moon swells to cliché and under a…
The genome of history
Race isn’t a mere social construct. It’s a side-effect of the fact that humanity is still evolving
This is Anfield
Living up to its fabled buzz, the Kop roared and rose even before kick-off. Down in the main stand I…
The accused
There’s no way to live down a rape allegation, true or not. It’s time suspects were granted anonymity
Would Obama bomb Iran?
Yes, and here’s why, says a former adviser to his defence department
The secret of Civilisation
No modern critic would dare match Kenneth Clark’s fearless way with sweeping statements
A guy named Mo
How was it that Mo Ansar, a bank employee in Hampshire, became the voice of British Islam?
Art fairs
In 1967, two Cologne-based gallerists came up with the Cologne Art Market — a trade fair where German galleries could…
This is Anfield
Living up to its fabled buzz, the Kop roared and rose even before kick-off. Down in the main stand I…
This is Anfield
Living up to its fabled buzz, the Kop roared and rose even before kick-off. Down in the main stand I…
The luckiest kids in history
The statistics speak for themselves. Today’s gilded generation is the most blessed that ever lived
Liberté, égalité, austérité
How France learned to love cuts
Exit strategy
I am ready to talk about my death. Is anyone else?
Will there be war in Ukraine?
Further Russian military intervention would be a disaster. But Putin might have to do it anyway
The wisdom of clouds
Children can teach each other, believes Sugata Mitra — if you give them the internet, a big screen and a helpful granny on Skype
Women against the vote
The suffragettes’ opponents deserve to be remembered sympathetically
The triumph of the bores
Being boring was once the worst of all social sins. Now it’s practically compulsory
The Himalayas
As the aircraft descends into the high altitude military airport at Leh, the first glimpse of the Himalayan Kingdom of…
The descent of man
It’s not just that women are doing better. Britain has a crisis of masculinity
Mnemonic
Nothing I write will be as durable as the rhyme for remembering the genders of third declension nouns, stuck in…
