This is going to hurt

4 June 2022 9:00 am

Some things are done well in the Globe’s new Julius Caesar. The assassination is a thrilling spectacle. Ketchup pouches concealed…

‘Putin may be prepared to go to the limits’

4 June 2022 9:00 am

Antony Beevor and Serhii Plokhy in conversation

Sea fever

4 June 2022 9:00 am

You’ve got to hand it to Dame Ethel Smyth. Working in an era when to be a British composer implied…

Solution to 2555: 6 x 2 Mixtures

4 June 2022 9:00 am

The paired unclued lights (2/25, 4/16, 5/28, 10/20, 13/17 and 15D/41) are anagrams of one another. First prize Trish Baldin,…

Letters

4 June 2022 9:00 am

Russian misrule Sir: Your editorial (‘Sanction Schroder’, 21 May) laments that western sanctions may be harming ordinary Russians, given that…

Will the world forsake him?

4 June 2022 9:00 am

Cracks are beginning to appear in T.S. Eliot’s once unassailable reputation, says Philip Hensher

Sex Pistol’s Notebook

4 June 2022 9:00 am

‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in,’ groans a weary Al Pacino in The Godfather…

A rising star

4 June 2022 9:00 am

Ding Liren took first place at last month’s Chessable Masters, the fourth event in the 2022 Meltwater Champions Tour. But…

Basketball talk

4 June 2022 9:00 am

On the cover of The Sidekick, just below a broken basketball hoop, a quote from Jonathan Lethem suggests Benjamin Markovits…

For meta or worse

4 June 2022 9:00 am

Bergman Island sounds, on first acquaintance, like a theme-park attraction. Roll up, roll up! Let us speed you through the…

Real life

4 June 2022 9:00 am

If you want to understand Surrey, look at the house names. Keepers’ Copse, Meadow View, Weavers, Highfields… What do all…

High life

4 June 2022 9:00 am

New York Prince Pavlos, heir to the Greek throne, turned 55 recently and I threw a small dinner for him.…

Bridge

4 June 2022 9:00 am

In honour of Her Majesty the Queen’s awe-inspiring Platinum Jubilee, I have not one but two hands, illustrating the power…

Wild life

4 June 2022 9:00 am

On the BOAC VC10 flights to Nairobi, the pilots would invite children like me up to sit in the cockpit…

Married to the Blond Beast

4 June 2022 9:00 am

There have been many biographies of Reinhard Heydrich, the cold, cynical head of the SS in the Third Reich, but…

Prophesying doom

4 June 2022 9:00 am

In the wake of catastrophe, however random or unpredictable, one of the first things people can be relied upon to…

Too close to home

4 June 2022 9:00 am

Julie Myerson has, somewhat confusingly, written a novel called Nonfiction. The confusion of course is the point, because this is…

The keys to success

4 June 2022 9:00 am

Every Good Boy Does Fine – a banal phrase that also just happens to be the key to limitless wonder.…

Be careful what you wish for

4 June 2022 9:00 am

The problem for feminism is men. Not, specifically, in the sense that men are the source of women’s problems, although…

Puzzle No. 705

4 June 2022 9:00 am

White to play. Giri-Praggnanandhaa, Chessable Masters 2022. A game from the preliminary stages. What did Giri play to induce resignation?…

A proud, independent spirit

4 June 2022 9:00 am

‘Deplorable,’ wrote the historian Denis Sinor in 1958 about the state of Hungarian historiography in English. ‘Not only are the…

The Battle for Britain: Michael Heath

4 June 2022 9:00 am

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Rob Burrow is in a league of his own

4 June 2022 9:00 am

What a privilege the other night to see Rob Burrow, the Rugby League legend, win Autobiography of the Year at…

The quiet radical

4 June 2022 9:00 am

Luckily for us, the Queen has always trusted her instincts

Going platinum

4 June 2022 9:00 am

In Competition No. 3251, you were invited to submit a poem to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee in the style…