Now Albo wants your electricity, too
A new government program plans to rob consumers of their own energy supplies
Language
When US President Joe Biden addressed Congress and gave his ‘State of the Union’ address he was (at times) greeted…
An ecstatic torment of self-delight
What a week of music. On Thursday night we listened to the Chamber Philharmonia Cologne do Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at…
Kiwi life
To be an award-winning commentator, the late Alexander Cockburn held, you really need to have a bit of a thing…
Anatomy of a scandal
Last summer, Rishi Sunak told this magazine about what happened inside government during lockdown. The policy, he said, had been…
Rishi’s new momentum
When Rishi Sunak appeared in the House of Commons to outline the details of his new agreement on the Northern…
Unmasking the truth
You want some tomatoes? Come up here, we’re inundated. We’ve got a tomato mountain. That’s because nobody in the north…
Barometer
Striking out An England vs Wales rugby match was nearly called off after Welsh players threatened to go on strike…
Bring up the bodies
In Competition No. 3288, you were invited to supply a sonnet on an embarrassing ailment. To make space for as…
Chicken tikka masala
Chicken tikka masala has become something of a joke. When, in the late 2000s, it was topping lists of the…
Tea junction
The Cédric Grolet at the Berkeley lives in the shiniest hotel in Knightsbridge, though I prefer the Mandarin Oriental, because…
A Test match for the ages
Readers of a certain vintage might be familiar with the work of J.A. (Charles) Cuddon, a teacher at Emanuel School…
