What’s right with Saracens– and José’s Chelsea
It’s hard to love Saracens rugby club — their centre is called Bosch, a word that also describes their bulldozing…
Settling up
Mrs Oakley takes a dim view of my using the BMW that consumed much of her savings to ferry sacks…
Spirit of Soho
Every so often, John Deakin, jug-eared chronicler of Soho and hanger-on at the Colony Rooms, is breathlessly rediscovered as the…
Voices in my head
I did not mean to snort so loudly. There I was watching the amazing Simon Russell Beale in King Lear…
Voices in my head
I did not mean to snort so loudly. There I was watching the amazing Simon Russell Beale in King Lear…
Perfect harmony
To curate a festival these days is to put oneself in the firing line. There is every chance that all…
Perfect harmony
To curate a festival these days is to put oneself in the firing line. There is every chance that all…
Tripping through psychedelia
The Exploding Galaxy flashed brightly in the black-and-white world that was just coming to an end as I was growing…
For God, King and Country
Flags and flowers: three bloody years worked in silk. At the needle’s eye stand easy, ghost, slip through my fingers…
Why do racists like Ukip?
The most thought-provoking discussion about racism I ever heard took place five years ago on Channel 4’s Celebrity Wife Swap.…
Ukip isn’t a national party. It’s a Tory sickness
It can happen that something ought to feel wrong yet somehow doesn’t; and you wonder whether this means that in…
Australian Notes
So Malcolm Fraser’s new hero is Dr H.V. Evatt. This is how Robert Manne sees it in his long and…
How to lose a country
Why the unionists need to make the wider, more emotional case for saving Britain
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, appeared in public with George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer — the first…
Letters
Aids is still deadly Sir: Dr Pemberton (‘Life after Aids’, 19 April) subscribes to the now prevalent view that we have…
Cameron must tackle the optimism deficit
Politicians seem incapable of making a positive argument for anything
David Moyes couldn’t deal with the pomposity of Manchester United
The egos at the club are off the scale
When did life become a medical problem?
Cyberchondria has infected the US, and now it’s over here, too
The left-liberal hold over the arts may be ending
Right-wing creatives have much to gain from internet crowdfunding
Osborne is entitled to look smug but would be wise to wear a bag over his head
But it won’t do him any favours with the voters
Back to the future
If he wins the next election, Ed Miliband is set to unleash a radical Old Labour agenda
