Sport and the English identity
From fox hunters to football hooligans, sport is England’s way of showing what it thinks it is.
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The autumn of discontent
How our bodies shape our thoughts
The way we perceive the world is often deeply linked to the bodies we move through our surroundings in.
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Why Corbynism failed
Two new books explain how the failure of Labour in 2019 was not only a problem of strategy and…
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Why Gatsby was not so great
With his millionaire playboy, F Scott Fitzgerald inadvertently created a cult. But in the age of Trump, it’s clear…
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How Gabriele Münter painted “the content of things”
The striking works of the German expressionist, founding member of Das Blaue Reiter and fiancée of Kandinsky.
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Why Lebanon is too important to fail
The country desperately needs reform – but still there is no coherent political alternative to the status quo.
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Personal story: My fear of life outside
Before the pandemic, my agoraphobia hadn’t affected me in five years. Now, I once more live in fear of…
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Britain’s search for a national story
How the UK can heal itself in an age of disorder.
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Boris Johnson’s autumn of discontent
The Tories turned to Johnson, in spite of his flaws, because they knew he was a winner. But high…
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