No one is immune to the rage that drives our politics
Young women – today and always – are less susceptible to delusions of grandeur
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How to laugh at the lanyard class
Twenty Twenty Six satirises the contortions and the tedium of the new British office
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The case for spending on defence
Also: an epitaph for our times, and a novel way to read the news
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“Internally displaced” doesn’t do justice to those now living on Lebanon’s streets
We spot a lone man sifting through the rubble. I see him pull out a necklace and drop it into…
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The tech execs haggling the “cost to kill”
At Britain’s premier defence conference, death is in demand
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The message of A Doll’s House is unbound by time
A new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s renowned play emphasises the performance’s universality – but the characters leave much to be…
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The far right has moved on from Orbán
It now sees its future inside the EU
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Donald Trump is WEAK on Catholicism
Despite Maga’s proud Catholicism, Trump’s Messiah complex is driving him into a Papal feud
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Does Inter Alia understand the manosphere?
Suzie Miller’s play takes the debate and turns it on its head – but the message is muddled
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The silent coup
How AI captured Westminster
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John Lanchester’s personal venom
John Lanchester’s new novel offers a darkly funny vision of bitter London professionals
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Please, come in to my apartment. No, I don’t have any chairs
The London housing market forces the urgent question: what if you ate that ricotta on the floor
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How to paint a new country
Konrad Mägi mined various early-20th-century styles to create a restless national vision for Estonia
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Albert Camus, estranged
François Ozon subtly updates The Stranger and its author’s attitudes to French colonialism
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Kathleen Stock, born-again conservative
The philosopher’s new book on assisted dying is part of a developing critique of moral libertarianism
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Unlike France, Britain’s roads practically sparkle with litter
At least we don’t have a borderline sociopath in charge
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Beer and sandwiches: At Big John’s Biltong Bar in Deptford
This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to [email protected]
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Jan Morris’s defiant life
The transgender travel writer was both temperamentally conservative and deeply unconventional
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Gwendoline Riley is haunted by herself
The author’s new novel, Palm House, lacks her usual virtuosity
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Do you qualify as Down and Out?
It is nowhere near as easy as you might think
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