Fighting talk
It isn’t easy selling out Wembley Stadium with its capacity of between 70,000 and 90,000 (depending on the exact arrangement).…
The only way is Middlesbrough
‘I was 12 when I first got laid.’ ‘Where was that?’ ‘In Middlesbrough.’ ‘How the hell did you get lucky…
Too close to home
Life in a comfortable modern flat with her husband and two young sons leaves Natsumi so depressed she thinks she’s losing her mind
No easy exit
A young woman and an older, married man fall passionately in love in the last days of the GDR – but abuse and jealousy soon turn things sour
The dirty tricks brigade
Scott Shapiro describes five major hacks – the most serious of which, the creation of the Mirai botnet, was the work of three young men hoping to make a few quick bucks
From Anaximander to Zeno
Adam Nicolson thinks so. But his liveliest stories are about Pythagoras, who lived in a hole in the ground, and Thales, who fell into a well while studying the night sky
Seize the moment
A group of students in Iowa City meet in bars and seminar rooms, but, separated by class, race and wealth, their connection is only fleeting
Disappointed youth
The singer-songwriter deserved to be far better known in his lifetime – but reticence and mental illness contributed to his tragically early death in 1974
Tribal loyalties
In his ‘journey into the psychology of belonging’, Michael Bond focuses on the positive side of tribalism, leaving its darker aspects mostly unexplored
Moving swiftly on
Her 1980 ‘Right to Buy’ policy, though popular at the time, led to the serious erosion of social housing stock and today’s itinerant population, says Kieran Yates
Judge, jury and executioner
‘Immediate Justice’, the government’s new policing initiative of pursuing petty criminals, reflects the black-clad law-enforcer’s 1970s methods exactly
Russia’s moral collapse
It’s not just Putin’s war, says Jade McGlynn. The mass of Telegram data shows how much the nation as a whole supports the offensive
The art of the impossible
A corpse comes back to life and goes on a road trip. Lorrie Moore’s powerful
new novel leaves Philip Hensher shaken, troubled, but also consoled
So… You want to buy a house?!
First, write down on paper the kind of house you want with the required number of rooms and toilets. Consider…
Chris Christie goes soft on trans issues
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie has come out against banning sex changes for minors, putting him at odds not…
In praise of megarich adventurers
There’s rich and there’s rich. There’s a number beyond which stuff starts to get boring. I’m not sure what it…
Woke-ifying the Essendon logo has bombed out
Generally, stakeholder consultation is a good thing to do; regular rapport being a great lubricant for productive relations between any…
Food security and property rights under threat in Western Australia
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (ACH) comes into effect on the July 1, 2023, in Western Australia (WA). Ostensibly it…
Russia’s nuclear blackmail
‘Dear Ukrainians! And all people of the world: everyone! I emphasise this,’ Volodymyr Zelensky said in a televised speech yesterday. Russia, he…
The tragedy of Iraq’s Jews
Walk into my grandmother’s living room in north-west London, and you could be forgiven for thinking you had suddenly stepped…
Brussels will regret its crackdown on Hungary’s migrant plan
Hungary, a magnet for numerous would-be migrants because of its 110-mile land border with Serbia, has taken its own steps…
Barack is back… to save the Democratic Party he stymied
When Barack Obama set out to fundamentally transform the country, he took for granted that it could be transformed back…
The Titan deaths were utterly avoidable
When the news broke that the Titan submersible was missing, naval experts immediately recognised that the chances of saving the…
