Tory quislings in the culture war
Aretha Franklin’s 1967 hit ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’ should be removed from the music streaming network…
How to not drink
I have just finished a sojourn with a curious twist. Readers of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain will remember Hans…
London falling
The recent debate around ‘levelling up’ may be missing something. I would argue that there is another way to consider…
A shed of one’s own
Two and a half years ago, I wrote a column about how I’d started sleeping in my garden office. No,…
‘We want to hit the ground running’
When Keir Starmer won the Labour leadership in 2020, following the party’s worst election defeat since 1935, many people shook…
Barometer
Preserve us The British Museum said it would stop referring to ‘mummies’ and call them ‘mummified persons’ instead, out of…
Tanks for nothing
Ukraine’s top soldier, General Valery Zaluzhny, has said that if he is to launch a successful counter-offensive, the West will…
After the war in Ukraine
I awoke in the small hours last week and began worrying about the Ukraine war. A friend had earlier taken…
Pride comes before a fall
Hockey is one of those games, like lacrosse, that alters as it crosses the Atlantic. In Britain, if a man…
You can’t say that!
The University of Washington technology department has banned the word ‘housekeeping’. Not because the ‘problematic’ noun is overtly ist (ableist,…
