Features
Chicken soup
Catherine Chicken is sickly. She has swollen up like a barrage balloon with an evil face and dinosaur feet. She…
All over
Why was Politics For All shut down?
Marmalade
The spectrum of ‘bestowing homemade gifts on one’s friends’ ranges from giving to foisting. Pure giving is when you make…
Sole traders
My strange encounter with the foot fetishists
Haunted
The spectre of revolution is stalking Putin
User friendly
The London mayor’s new policy on cannabis is a disaster
Bounce back
Can Berlusconi become Italy’s next president?
Doctor’s note
Why should I be sacked for refusing the Covid vaccine?
Under the influence
The trouble with dating a social media star
Can he survive?
Boris Johnson is in the worst trouble of his premiership
The EU’s new emperor
What would Macron’s second term look like?
A model Uighur
The exhausting battle to keep on the right side of the CCP
A pretty pass
The case for vaccine passports has collapsed
Unpopular opinion
Why I love to be hated
Letter from Kenya
My wife and I were lucky to escape for a long-delayed birdwatching holiday in Kenya over Christmas. To have been…
Divided, we stand
Anglicans need to agree to disagree
Pills to post
The antivirals taskforce is at the ready
Top model
An alternative to Sage’s worst-case scenario
Gold
After taking James Bond hostage, Auric Goldfinger does what all Bond villains do when in a position of power —…
Best of the Blob
Who would be picked for its 1st XV?
‘You’re brilliant, darling’
Joan Collins and Taki on golden Hollywood, fist-fights and getting cancelled
Gus and his mate Mark
A short story by Lissa Evans
What’s your favourite children’s novel?
J.K. Rowling Poignant, funny and genuinely scary, The Hundred and One Dalmatians was one of my favourite books as a…
Chief Rabbi’s Notebook
Reactions to the recent passing of F.W. de Klerk transported me back to my childhood in South Africa. The horror…
Christmas trees
The closest thing we have to a native Christmas tree is the often broccoli-shaped Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). But the…
