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JT
 Nov 22, 2018

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A weekly reflection on a topical issue.


Episode Date
Me and my medical data
Apr 26, 2024
On Anger
Apr 19, 2024
It's all right for you
Apr 12, 2024
Motherland
Apr 05, 2024
Work Work Work
Mar 29, 2024
Trump's Second Coming
Mar 22, 2024
Michael & Tony & Me
Mar 15, 2024
Peak Envy
Mar 08, 2024
The Death and Life of Modern Martyrs
Mar 01, 2024
The Carnival Is Over
Feb 23, 2024
Down the Rabbit Hole
Feb 16, 2024
Why is my handwriting so bad?
Feb 09, 2024
On Ritual
Feb 02, 2024
I See No Ships
Jan 26, 2024
Identity and Theft
Jan 19, 2024
In the Grey Zone
Jan 12, 2024
A Plate of Pfeffernusse
Jan 05, 2024
A Lump of Coal and a Black Bun
Dec 29, 2023
Taking Time
Dec 22, 2023
Dearly Beloved
Dec 15, 2023
The Usefulness of Pessimism
Dec 08, 2023
On the Curiosity of Children
Dec 01, 2023
10,000 Steps
Nov 24, 2023
The Strangeness of Dreams
Nov 17, 2023
Material World
Nov 10, 2023
Looks Like Rain
Nov 03, 2023
Red Squirrel Good?
Oct 27, 2023
On Deer Stalking
Oct 20, 2023
No News Is Good News
Oct 13, 2023
The Piano: A Lifetime of Wrong Notes
Oct 06, 2023
Mixed Signals
Sep 29, 2023
The Wink of Dishonour
Sep 22, 2023
In the Spite House
Sep 15, 2023
My Love Affair with the Mysterious
Sep 08, 2023
Against the Bucket List
Sep 01, 2023
The Trad Wife
Aug 25, 2023
The Rationality of Monarchy
Aug 18, 2023
Limbo
Aug 11, 2023
The Tourist Trap
Aug 04, 2023
Freddie Mercury's Moustache Comb
Jul 28, 2023
The Soul of a Rebel
Jul 21, 2023
The Dragon and The Dog
Jul 14, 2023
Notes on Ageing
Jul 07, 2023
Good Directions
Jun 30, 2023
Observing Ourselves
Jun 23, 2023
Midsummer and the Mysteries of Colour
Jun 16, 2023
Beyoncé, Beauty and the Pursuit of Youth
Jun 09, 2023
To Mow or Not to Mow
Jun 02, 2023
Taking Hammer to Gill
May 26, 2023
The Ratings Game
May 19, 2023
Demographic Meltdown
May 16, 2023
Dust to Dust
May 12, 2023
On Ascent
May 05, 2023
Abide with Yourself
Apr 21, 2023
In Praise of Satire
Apr 14, 2023
The Wisdom of Judgement
Apr 07, 2023
Insecurity
Mar 31, 2023
Proportional Representation and a New Politics
Mar 24, 2023
Amaryllis
Mar 17, 2023
Collecting Art
Mar 10, 2023
Lessons from Disaster Movies
Mar 03, 2023
Stay Weird, Britain
Feb 24, 2023
Donatello and a New Renaissance
Feb 17, 2023
The Art of Getting Lost
Feb 10, 2023
AI Agonistes
Feb 03, 2023
On Communal Living
Jan 27, 2023
Masculinity: From Durkheim to Andrew Tate
Jan 20, 2023
Prince Harry, Love, and Me
Jan 13, 2023
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Jan 06, 2023
Nature's Pantomime
Dec 30, 2022
Turf, Babe and Me
Dec 23, 2022
The End of Winter
Dec 16, 2022
Chastity Belt Politics
Dec 09, 2022
On Being Tall
Dec 02, 2022
The End of the Line
Nov 25, 2022
Who Can Herd the Cats?
Nov 18, 2022
My Ever Growing Pile of Books
Nov 11, 2022
A Brit Abroad
Nov 04, 2022
Darkness Made Visible
Oct 28, 2022
Investigation of a Dog
Oct 21, 2022
A Plea for Nuance
Oct 14, 2022
Trickle Down
Oct 07, 2022
Notions of Blackness
Sep 30, 2022
A Deadly Serious Game
Sep 23, 2022
The Queen: An Acceptance of History
Sep 18, 2022
Female Fictions
Sep 02, 2022
When Everybody Is Somebody
Aug 26, 2022
The New Age of Empire
Aug 19, 2022
The Samsara of Salmon
Aug 12, 2022
No Final Frontier
Aug 05, 2022
Dance Cocky
Jul 29, 2022
Climate Change and the Fall of Icarus
Jul 22, 2022
Chance and Opportunity
Jul 15, 2022
The Meanings of Conservatism
Jul 08, 2022
Billionaire Bashing
Jul 01, 2022
Driving the American Dream
Jun 24, 2022
No-Stalgia
Jun 17, 2022
Birthday Blues
Jun 10, 2022
Jubilee Musings
Jun 03, 2022
On Rubble
May 27, 2022
Home from Home
May 20, 2022
The War with Words
May 13, 2022
Basic Instincts in the House of Commons
May 06, 2022
Reconsidering Cannabis and the Law
May 01, 2022
The Unlistened-to Story
Apr 22, 2022
What is a Woman?
Apr 15, 2022
A View From Russia: All I Have To Say
Apr 08, 2022
Helpless
Apr 01, 2022
Tolstoy in Our Time
Mar 25, 2022
Every Picture Tells a Story
Mar 18, 2022
There Are No Words
Mar 11, 2022
Return of the Bomb
Mar 04, 2022
It's Not Their War
Feb 25, 2022
An Ecological Reparation
Feb 18, 2022
Selective Vision
Feb 11, 2022
Misopedia
Feb 04, 2022
Leaving the Ivory Tower
Jan 28, 2022
The Right Side of History
Jan 21, 2022
Etonian Lives Matter... but not as much as they used to.
Jan 14, 2022
On Rapid Home Delivery
Jan 07, 2022
On lost souls... and mobile phones
Dec 31, 2021
The Sea at Christmas
Dec 24, 2021
A Sense of Home
Dec 17, 2021
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
Dec 10, 2021
But Does it Matterhorn?
Dec 03, 2021
More Questions Than Answers
Nov 26, 2021
Annoying
Nov 19, 2021
The Child Question
Nov 12, 2021
The Eve of Destruction
Nov 05, 2021
Car Hatred
Oct 29, 2021
Two Small Scandals
Oct 22, 2021
Not in My Movie
Oct 15, 2021
Talking about Integration
Oct 08, 2021
In Praise of Mathematics
Oct 01, 2021
Suffer the Children
Sep 24, 2021
Little Amal
Sep 17, 2021
The Limits of Reason
Sep 10, 2021
The Secret Life of Food
Sep 03, 2021
The Creep of the On-Screen Narrative
Aug 27, 2021
The Rhetoric of the Climate Crisis
Aug 20, 2021
A Study in Improbability
Aug 13, 2021
Rapping with a W
Aug 06, 2021
In the Dingle Peninsula
Jul 30, 2021
Trolls Running Riot
Jul 23, 2021
Verrucas Optional
Jul 16, 2021
Red Tape
Jul 09, 2021
The Boring Twenties
Jul 02, 2021
The Culture War
Jun 25, 2021
Anti-Zionism and the Death of Tragedy
Jun 18, 2021
The Arts in Our Hearts
Jun 11, 2021
The Past is Never Dead
Jun 04, 2021
Eavesdropping
May 28, 2021
On Concrete
May 21, 2021
Absence of Exultation
May 14, 2021
Invisible Women
May 07, 2021
Living with Group Difference
May 02, 2021
The Age of Infantilism
Apr 23, 2021
What are you doing here?
Apr 16, 2021
Reflections on my Mother's Kenwood Mixer
Apr 09, 2021
The Florida Phone Call
Apr 02, 2021
Is that Miss or Mrs Wheeler?
Mar 26, 2021
The Year of Speaking Dangerously
Mar 12, 2021
Sacred Cows and Sushi Rolls
Mar 05, 2021
What'll you have?
Feb 26, 2021
A Sense of an Opening
Feb 19, 2021
Going Underground
Feb 12, 2021
A Sense of Fear
Feb 05, 2021
Sacking the Capitols
Jan 29, 2021
The Power of Slow Storytelling
Jan 22, 2021
Whose Free Speech?
Jan 15, 2021
A Turning Point for Democracy?
Jan 08, 2021
New Year Letter from New York
Jan 01, 2021
Spiritual Pick and Mix
Dec 25, 2020
Off the Map
Dec 18, 2020
Confessions of an Anti-Clasper
Dec 11, 2020
Edible Architecture
Dec 04, 2020
Loving the Body Fat-tastic
Nov 27, 2020
Experience Trumps Facts
Nov 20, 2020
Perpetual Lockdown
Nov 13, 2020
Don't Mention the War
Nov 06, 2020
Pets Aren't People!
Oct 30, 2020
Brief Encounters
Oct 23, 2020
The Great Conjunction
Oct 16, 2020
Reflections on My Mother's Kenwood Mixer
Oct 09, 2020
The Pro-Mask Movement
Oct 02, 2020
What's the Magic Number?
Sep 25, 2020
Conspiracy Theories and a Good Hair Cut
Sep 18, 2020
Having the 'Wrong' Politics
Sep 11, 2020
Thinking Otherwise
Sep 04, 2020
A Fine Line
Aug 28, 2020
Tolerance: the Unfashionable Virtue
Aug 21, 2020
The End of Progress?
Aug 14, 2020
Gender in the Blender
Aug 07, 2020
The Big Benefits of Smallness
Jul 31, 2020
A Hazy Shade of Winter
Jul 24, 2020
Legacy Bottle Opener
Jul 17, 2020
Coronavirus and Convention
Jul 10, 2020
Why Black Lives Matter
Jul 03, 2020
A Word of Advice
Jun 26, 2020
The end of university as we know it?
Jun 19, 2020
Inside Out
Jun 12, 2020
I Like It Here
Jun 05, 2020
Waiting
May 29, 2020
In Praise of Cleaning
May 22, 2020
My Mother
May 15, 2020
On Risk
May 08, 2020
Cultural success and the Aboriginals
May 01, 2020
A Few Good Trade Offs
Apr 24, 2020
On Not Finishing
Apr 17, 2020
Grandad We Love You
Apr 10, 2020
Seven Degrees of Solitude
Apr 03, 2020
Fighting infection with imagination
Mar 27, 2020
Cause for Hope
Mar 20, 2020
Empty-nesters and gangsters
Mar 13, 2020
What to do?
Mar 06, 2020
Recline-gate
Feb 28, 2020
Inhaling History
Feb 21, 2020
An Epidemic of History
Feb 14, 2020
Sodcasting
Feb 07, 2020
Saving the planet - on hands and knees
Jan 31, 2020
Anti-Semitism and the Neo Medievalists
Jan 24, 2020
The Ring of the Nibelung
Jan 17, 2020
On Hypocrisy
Jan 10, 2020
Getting Close to Nature
Jan 05, 2020
The Consolations of Taxidermy
Dec 27, 2019
The recurrent dream of an end-time
Dec 20, 2019
Expectations of Democracy
Dec 13, 2019
Conversations of a cockroach and an alley cat
Dec 06, 2019
Clive James: Clams are Happy
Nov 29, 2019
The Sex Recession
Nov 22, 2019
On Spam
Nov 15, 2019
A Woman at the Last Supper
Nov 08, 2019
The Great Divide
Nov 01, 2019
An evening at the Death Cafe
Oct 25, 2019
Down with political packages
Oct 18, 2019
The Myth of Inevitability
Oct 11, 2019
The happiest days of your life...
Oct 04, 2019
Keep right on
Sep 27, 2019
Who are you looking at?
Sep 20, 2019
A Change of Tack
Sep 13, 2019
September Anxiety
Sep 06, 2019
On Ghost Cities
Aug 30, 2019
Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
Aug 23, 2019
Against Theory
Aug 16, 2019
To the Bathroom!
Aug 09, 2019
The Vultures of Culture
Aug 02, 2019
Leaving Florence
Jul 26, 2019
British Populism and Brexit
Jul 19, 2019
The Language of Leaving
Jul 12, 2019
My People
Jul 05, 2019
Distributing Status
Jun 28, 2019
A Knight in Shining Armour?
Jun 21, 2019
Refugee Tales
Jun 14, 2019
Simply a Writer
Jun 07, 2019
Dangerous places, libraries
May 31, 2019
Democracy is not in crisis
May 24, 2019
Tackling homelessness
May 10, 2019
What Would Darwin Do?
May 03, 2019
Get Mad, Then Get Over It!
Apr 26, 2019
After the Fire
Apr 19, 2019
Automation...and a packet of frozen peas
Apr 12, 2019
On Holding Forth
Apr 05, 2019
Brexit: Failure to compromise
Mar 29, 2019
Where there's muck there's art
Mar 22, 2019
So Many Kinds of Britons: Who Knew?
Mar 15, 2019
A Sense of Chaos
Mar 08, 2019
Calling a spade a spade
Mar 01, 2019
Cookery shows...and hungry people
Feb 22, 2019
Humour that's worth its name
Feb 15, 2019
The Organ Recital
Feb 08, 2019
The Sea Is Back
Feb 01, 2019
The trouble with referendums
Jan 25, 2019
Brexit and the English Revolution
Jan 18, 2019
Have we reached Peak Stuff?
Jan 11, 2019
The Online Password
Jan 06, 2019
To Parks
Dec 28, 2018
On Not Being Oneself
Dec 21, 2018
Money Sense
Dec 14, 2018
What did you do during the environmental collapse, daddy?
Dec 07, 2018
The witch-hunt culture
Nov 30, 2018
Speak, History!
Nov 23, 2018
Cities of the Dead
Nov 23, 2018
Going into Storage
Nov 16, 2018
Only Remembered
Nov 09, 2018
Clothes and the Man
Nov 02, 2018
In Praise of Mooching
Oct 19, 2018
Not a good time to be a man
Oct 12, 2018
The Joy of Deferred Gratification
Oct 05, 2018
Fixing violence in London - Glasgow-style
Sep 28, 2018
Murder is not the point
Sep 21, 2018
Serena and the Umpire
Sep 14, 2018
On Prefixes
Sep 07, 2018
Parity of Esteem
Aug 31, 2018
Books do furnish a room
Aug 24, 2018
Bin the Bucket List
Aug 17, 2018
The Road to Peace
Aug 10, 2018
Think Again
Aug 03, 2018
Imagine
Jul 27, 2018
Brexit and Illiberal Europe
Jul 20, 2018
The Conundrum of Inheritance Tax
Jul 13, 2018
Cliches and Commonplaces
Jul 06, 2018
The Past
Jun 29, 2018
Mindless Replicants
Jun 22, 2018
A New Anti-Semitism
Jun 15, 2018
Botcare
Jun 08, 2018
Bobby Kennedy's Assassination - 50 years on
Jun 01, 2018
Summer in the Movies
May 25, 2018
Ireland's Abortion Referendum - A Personal View
May 18, 2018
The Brightening of History
May 11, 2018
A Problem with Words
May 04, 2018
A Normal Need
Apr 27, 2018
The Museum of Deportation
Apr 20, 2018
The Mental Illness Metaphor
Apr 13, 2018
China and the Retreat of Liberal Values
Apr 06, 2018
Modern-day Empires
Mar 30, 2018
The Rise and Rise of Up Lit
Mar 23, 2018
The True Mark of Civilisation?
Mar 16, 2018
Going Forward
Mar 09, 2018
Teffi: Silver Shoes and the Dream of Revolution
Mar 02, 2018
The Dangers of a Higher Education
Feb 23, 2018
The Trolley Problem
Feb 16, 2018
Memento Mori
Feb 09, 2018
Too Much Winning
Feb 02, 2018
The Heart in Drama
Jan 26, 2018
Daring to Marvel
Jan 19, 2018
On Misanthropy
Jan 12, 2018
The Last Bohemia
Jan 07, 2018
Dramatic Speech
Dec 29, 2017
In Praise of the Feuilleton
Dec 22, 2017
The Novelist's Complicity
Dec 15, 2017
The Assault on Reason
Dec 08, 2017
A Folder Called 'Hope'
Dec 01, 2017
Macbeth and the Insomnia Epidemic
Nov 24, 2017
Mass Myopia
Nov 17, 2017
The miserable pantomime of contemporary British vegetarianism
Nov 10, 2017
Men Against Women
Nov 03, 2017
Ode to Space
Oct 27, 2017
I hope this email finds you well...
Oct 20, 2017
The Battle for Free Speech
Oct 13, 2017
The Apocalypse Hasn't Happened Yet
Oct 06, 2017
The Triumph of Tribalism
Sep 29, 2017
Talking of Empire
Sep 22, 2017
On authenticity
Sep 15, 2017
Tackling the moped menace
Sep 08, 2017
The Religion of Rights
Sep 01, 2017
The Meaning of Conservative
Aug 30, 2017
Pottering towards the new socialist state
Aug 25, 2017
Raising the Bar
Aug 11, 2017
On Musical Theatre
Aug 07, 2017
Napoleons and Normalcy
Jul 28, 2017
My Encounter with Shingles
Jul 21, 2017
What To Call Him?
Jul 14, 2017
A Staircase in Sunlight
Jul 07, 2017
The Mark of a Man
Jun 30, 2017
After Grenfell
Jun 23, 2017
Get Over It
Jun 16, 2017
A new politics?
Jun 09, 2017
Renouncing Middlemarch
Jun 02, 2017
After Manchester
May 26, 2017
The Fearsome Nature of Literary Festivals
May 19, 2017
In praise of the elite
May 12, 2017
On robots
May 05, 2017
Trust in Voices
Apr 28, 2017
The Past in the Present
Apr 21, 2017
The Power of Reading
Apr 14, 2017
Bad News is Good Business
Apr 07, 2017
Dementia Rights
Mar 31, 2017
The Power and Peril of Stories
Mar 24, 2017
Sic transit
Mar 17, 2017
The Screensaver of Life, or the Idling Brain
Mar 10, 2017
Flying Saucers and an Uncertain World
Mar 03, 2017
The Spectre of Populism
Feb 24, 2017
The Follies of Experts
Feb 17, 2017
The fun of work - really?
Feb 16, 2017
Protecting Our Way of Life
Feb 10, 2017
States of Confusion
Feb 03, 2017
Teaching to the test
Jan 27, 2017
The Fourth Plinth
Jan 20, 2017
Re-launching National Service
Jan 13, 2017
The Shape Of Our Time
Dec 30, 2016
Word of 2016: People
Dec 23, 2016
"Baby It's Cold Outside"
Dec 16, 2016
Holes in Clothes
Dec 09, 2016
Bob Dylan and the Bobolaters
Dec 02, 2016
A Liberal Credo
Nov 25, 2016
The Week Gone By
Nov 25, 2016
The Trump Card
Nov 18, 2016
America Votes
Nov 04, 2016
In Praise of Prophets of Doom
Oct 28, 2016
Shylock's Mock Appeal
Oct 21, 2016
In Praise of Difficulty
Oct 14, 2016
Whoop!
Oct 07, 2016
Against Safe Spaces
Sep 30, 2016
The Real Meaning of Trump
Sep 23, 2016
Who Cares About Independence?
Sep 16, 2016
My Idea of Heaven
Sep 09, 2016
Every Dog Has His Day
Aug 26, 2016
Finding Our Roots
Aug 19, 2016
What's wrong with modern art?
Aug 12, 2016
Act Your Age
Aug 05, 2016
Canaries in the Coal Mine
Jul 29, 2016
Being English
Jul 22, 2016
Facts Not Opinions
Jul 15, 2016
Brexit and our cultural identity
Jul 15, 2016
Strategic Shift
Jul 14, 2016
Democracy After Brexit
Jul 13, 2016
Britain, Europe and the World
Jul 12, 2016
Onora O'Neill
Jul 11, 2016
Belongings
Jul 08, 2016
On Brexit
Jul 01, 2016
The power of language
Jun 24, 2016
A Petition Against Petitions
Jun 19, 2016
How Should We Build?
Jun 10, 2016
I Gave It All Away
May 27, 2016
Psy Wars
May 20, 2016
Spell-checking the Futr
May 14, 2016
Florence Under Water
May 06, 2016
The Power of the Pen
Apr 29, 2016
Reading Renaissance Art
Apr 22, 2016
When Is Enough Enough?
Apr 15, 2016
The Meaning of Time
Apr 08, 2016
Virtual Violence
Apr 01, 2016
Allergic to Food
Mar 25, 2016
Resolutions
Mar 18, 2016
Human Hybrids
Mar 11, 2016
Moral Futures
Feb 26, 2016
Vanilla Happiness
Feb 19, 2016
Star Wars Obsession
Feb 05, 2016
Expert by Experience
Jan 29, 2016
Face to Face
Jan 22, 2016
Sing a New Song
Jan 15, 2016
Peerless
Jan 08, 2016
Howard Jacobson: Wisdom
Jan 01, 2016
Howard Jacobson: Sermons
Dec 27, 2015
Howard Jacobson: Christmas
Dec 18, 2015
Sarah Dunant: Protest, Paris, Terror
Dec 04, 2015
From Pot to Profit
Nov 27, 2015
Sarah Dunant: Crisis in Catholicism
Nov 20, 2015
Roger Scruton: The Tyranny of Pop
Nov 13, 2015
Roger Scruton: Offensive Jokes
Nov 06, 2015
Roger Scruton: In Defence of Free Speech
Oct 23, 2015
Will Self: On Gardening
Oct 16, 2015
Will Self: Looks Matter
Oct 09, 2015
Will Self: What's in a Name
Oct 05, 2015
Will Self: A Life of Habit
Sep 25, 2015
Will Self: Losing Sleep
Sep 18, 2015
P J O'Rourke: Presidential Candidates
Sep 11, 2015
The Abolition of Man
Sep 04, 2015
Another Kind of Atheism
Aug 28, 2015
John Gray: Recalling Eric Ambler
Aug 21, 2015
John Gray: Euro Despair
Aug 14, 2015
Adam Gopnik: Long-Form Television
Aug 07, 2015
Adam Gopnik: Role Reversal
Jul 31, 2015
Peter Aspden: In Love with Greece
Jul 24, 2015
Adam Gopnik: In Praise of Privacy
Jul 17, 2015
Adam Gopnik: Power, Persecution and Pluralism
Jul 10, 2015
Adam Gopnik: Family Reunions
Jul 03, 2015
Adam Gopnik: Words and Music
Jun 26, 2015
Adam Gopnik: Indispensable Man
Jun 19, 2015
AL Kennedy: The Worth of Education
Jun 12, 2015
AL Kennedy: Creamola Foam remembered
Jun 05, 2015
In Praise of Courtesy
May 29, 2015
Politics of Hope
May 22, 2015
Presidents as Monarchs
May 15, 2015
Election View
May 08, 2015
Leaders Old and Young
May 01, 2015
Commemorative Style
Apr 24, 2015
Ideology Versus Art
Apr 17, 2015
Life's a Selfie
Apr 10, 2015
Mankle Image Crisis
Apr 03, 2015
The Price of Independence
Mar 27, 2015
Trial by Select Committee
Mar 20, 2015
Cognitive Decline
Mar 13, 2015
The Nature of Time
Mar 06, 2015
Post-Image
Feb 27, 2015
The Power of Fiction
Feb 20, 2015
The Purpose of Satire
Feb 13, 2015
Having Children
Feb 06, 2015
Losing Touch
Jan 30, 2015
The Power of Art
Jan 23, 2015
Language and Listening
Jan 16, 2015
Charlie Hebdo
Jan 09, 2015
The Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 02, 2015
Monarch's Message
Dec 26, 2014
Art: The Real Thing
Dec 19, 2014
Kitsch
Dec 12, 2014
Faking It
Dec 05, 2014
Thinking the Unthinkable
Nov 28, 2014
Dostoevsky and Dangerous Ideas
Nov 21, 2014
Soylent and the Charm of the Fast Lane
Nov 14, 2014
Capitalism and the Myth of Social Evolution
Nov 07, 2014
Cures for Anxiety
Oct 31, 2014
A Lesson from Love Locks
Oct 24, 2014
The Football Fallacy
Oct 17, 2014
Dying with Dignity
Oct 10, 2014
Short and Successful
Oct 03, 2014
Keeping Time
Sep 26, 2014
Red Dress Sense
Sep 19, 2014
The Horror of War
Sep 12, 2014
When fiction comes to the historian's rescue
Sep 05, 2014
Why Orwell Is the Supreme Mediocrity
Aug 29, 2014
What's Funny?
Aug 22, 2014
The Affliction of Consumption
Aug 15, 2014
Believing in Beliefs
Aug 08, 2014
The Changing Nature of Utopias
Aug 01, 2014
Is patriotism the last refuge of the scoundrel?
Jul 25, 2014
Believing in reason is childish
Jul 18, 2014
Isis: A modern revolutionary force?
Jul 11, 2014
To See Ourselves
Jul 04, 2014
Battling the Botnets
Jun 27, 2014
If You Haven't Got Anything Nice to Say...
Jun 20, 2014
No Burning Required
Jun 13, 2014
Bring Back the Heptarchy!
Jun 06, 2014
Should we be frightened of disability?
May 30, 2014
Why we should be religious but not spiritual
May 23, 2014
Testing Times
May 16, 2014
The Paradox of Growing Old
May 09, 2014
Digging Digitally
May 02, 2014
Mile Milestone
Apr 25, 2014
Travel Writing Giants
Apr 18, 2014
A Tale of Two Elections
Apr 11, 2014
A Lenten Reflection
Apr 04, 2014
A Disease Called Fame
Mar 28, 2014
Heavy Weather
Mar 21, 2014
The Time Warp
Mar 14, 2014
Free the Schools
Mar 07, 2014
Our Love for Animals
Feb 28, 2014
United We Fall
Feb 21, 2014
Money Matters
Feb 14, 2014
Twitter-Free
Feb 07, 2014
Why Sportsmanship Matters
Jan 31, 2014
Self-Drive Manhood
Jan 24, 2014
Sex and the French
Jan 17, 2014
Unknown Knowns
Jan 10, 2014
The Perils of Belief
Jan 03, 2014
Two Cheers for Human Rights
Dec 27, 2013
Islamo-Christian Heritage
Dec 20, 2013
Why Dickens Endures
Dec 13, 2013
It's Always the Others Who Die
Dec 06, 2013
Political Trojan Horses
Nov 29, 2013
Rebuilding After 9/11
Nov 22, 2013
Self Confident Culture
Nov 15, 2013
Kennedy 50 Years On
Nov 08, 2013
Will Self: Pity the Young
Nov 01, 2013
Lisa Jardine: Reflections on IVF
Oct 25, 2013
Machine Intelligence
Oct 18, 2013
Cross Border Science
Oct 11, 2013
Ethical Science
Oct 04, 2013
The Horror of Love
Sep 27, 2013
AL Kennedy: Someone to Watch Over Me
Sep 20, 2013
Great Pretenders
Sep 13, 2013
Real Change
Sep 06, 2013
Of the People, By the People 4/4
Aug 30, 2013
Of the People, By the People 3/4
Aug 23, 2013
Of the People, By the People 2/4
Aug 16, 2013
Roger Scruton: Of the People, By the People 1/4
Aug 09, 2013
Machiavelli's Summer in Tuscany
Aug 02, 2013
Reforming Catholicism in 140 Characters
Jul 26, 2013
A Big Day for Bert and Ernie?
Jul 19, 2013
A Sporting Catharsis
Jul 12, 2013
Gender Matters
Jul 05, 2013
Anyone for Art?
Jun 28, 2013
A Midsummer Daydream
Jun 21, 2013
Fly, Fish, Mouse and Worm
Jun 14, 2013
Can Compassion Be Taught?
Jun 07, 2013
Gatsby: The Perfect Fake
May 31, 2013
The Doors of Perception
May 24, 2013
The Meaning of Evil
May 17, 2013
The Myth of Modernity
May 10, 2013
The Limits of Materialism
May 03, 2013
John Gray: Bitcoin's Cyber Freedom
Apr 26, 2013
Adam Gopnik: On Children Leaving Home
Apr 19, 2013
Science, Magic and Madness
Apr 12, 2013
The Irrationality of Nations
Apr 05, 2013
The secret of a happy marriage
Mar 29, 2013
Turkish notions
Mar 22, 2013
Celestial Bodies
Mar 15, 2013
Dame Mary Cartwright
Mar 08, 2013
Modern Medicis
Mar 01, 2013
The Winter Queen
Feb 22, 2013
In Praise of Birmingham
Feb 15, 2013
Grand Central celebration
Feb 08, 2013
The Love of Bears
Feb 01, 2013
Presidential Inaugurations
Jan 25, 2013
Urban Designs
Jan 18, 2013
Terminal Thoughts
Jan 11, 2013
American Ambivalence
Jan 06, 2013
Will Self: The British Vomitorium
Dec 28, 2012
Economics Priesthood
Dec 21, 2012
Digital Past
Dec 14, 2012
Trustworthiness Before Trust
Dec 07, 2012
Are students getting their money's worth?
Nov 30, 2012
On Pompeii
Nov 23, 2012
Mary Beard: Age of Consent
Nov 16, 2012
Rich man, poor man
Nov 09, 2012
Understanding Contemporary China 4/4
Nov 02, 2012
Who are the Chinese? 3/4
Oct 26, 2012
What Will China Be Like as a Superpower? 2/4
Oct 19, 2012
Understanding Contemporary China 1/4
Oct 12, 2012
Presenting the Past
Oct 05, 2012
Mouthing Off
Sep 28, 2012
Sweet charity
Sep 21, 2012
In Search of Prizes
Sep 14, 2012
Policing Sex
Sep 07, 2012
The alchemy of memory
Aug 31, 2012
The trouble with 'freedom'
Aug 24, 2012
Sherlock Holmes and the Romance of Reason
Aug 17, 2012
Climate for Culture
Aug 10, 2012
Price of a Postage Stamp
Aug 03, 2012
The Paradox of Immortality
Jul 27, 2012
Keynes' Insights
Jul 20, 2012
Why humans are violent
Jul 13, 2012
The curse of a ridiculous name
Jul 06, 2012
Nazis - Gopnik's Amendment
Jun 29, 2012
What to do about a bad review
Jun 22, 2012
Adam Gopnik: Embarrassing Parents: The Thirteen-Year-Old Truth
Jun 15, 2012
Beatle Time
Jun 15, 2012
On Bees and Being
Jun 01, 2012
Will Self: A right loyal toast
May 25, 2012
Europe and my quadriga-spotting tour
May 18, 2012
Military matters
May 11, 2012
Lords, lordlings and....crumpets
May 04, 2012
The rights of humans... and animals
Apr 27, 2012
Challenging Intellect
Apr 20, 2012
Jubilee Celebrations
Apr 13, 2012
Cathedral Heritage
Apr 06, 2012
Fat Policemen
Mar 30, 2012
The Fashion for Westerns
Mar 23, 2012
Power of the Press
Mar 16, 2012
Churchill's American Speeches
Mar 09, 2012
David Cannadine: Why Wear a Tie?
Mar 02, 2012
A History of Monetary Unions
Feb 24, 2012
Bankers in America
Feb 17, 2012
Anniversary Cornucopia
Feb 10, 2012
Email Etiquette
Feb 03, 2012
The Thatcher Story
Jan 27, 2012
Volume Control
Jan 19, 2012
The Art of Gardening
Jan 13, 2012
Information Overload
Jan 06, 2012
Glamour in Austerity
Dec 30, 2011
The Memory Business
Dec 29, 2011
Media Malpractice
Dec 28, 2011
The Meaning of Debt
Dec 27, 2011
The End, yet again?
Dec 26, 2011
Carols at Christmas
Dec 23, 2011
Climate Change Belief
Dec 16, 2011
Beware the Experts
Dec 09, 2011
Lisa Jardine: Finding Family History
Dec 02, 2011
The Oxbridge Interview
Nov 25, 2011
Reflections on Monetary Union
Nov 18, 2011
On Age and Beauty
Nov 11, 2011
Mary Beard: On Tyrants
Nov 04, 2011
The Arms Trade
Oct 28, 2011
Class, race and social mobility
Oct 21, 2011
In praise of wind turbines
Oct 14, 2011
Why Prisons Fail
Oct 07, 2011
Political party membership
Sep 30, 2011
Churchill, chance and the black dog
Sep 23, 2011
Believing in Belief
Sep 16, 2011
Cats, birds and humans
Sep 09, 2011
John Gray: The revolution of capitalism
Sep 02, 2011
Kim Philby
Aug 26, 2011
Greece and the Meaning of Folly
Aug 19, 2011
The Advantages of Pessimism
Aug 12, 2011
Modern Parenting
Aug 05, 2011
On Social Climbing
Jul 29, 2011
What's in a marriage
Jul 22, 2011
The Art of Conversation
Jul 15, 2011
In Praise of the Zoo
Jul 08, 2011
On marriage
Feb 11, 2011
In Praise of the Nanny State
Feb 04, 2011
Are museums our new churches?
Jan 28, 2011
The ecological sublime
Jan 21, 2011
'News' and concentration
Jan 14, 2011
What humanities should teach
Jan 07, 2011
Dear Diary
Dec 31, 2010
A Time for Empathy
Dec 17, 2010
Talking About Their Generation
Dec 25, 2009
Clive James: Option Swamp
Dec 18, 2009
Hermie's Ghost
Dec 11, 2009
Impact
Dec 04, 2009
Spirit of the Game
Nov 27, 2009
Blog de Jour
Nov 20, 2009
The Man on the Fourth Plinth
Nov 13, 2009
High Road to Xanadu
Nov 06, 2009
On Strike
Oct 30, 2009
Clive James: The Golf Ball Potato Crisp
Oct 23, 2009
Newsflash from the Far East
May 29, 2009
Feminism and Democracy
May 22, 2009
Expensive Mistakes
May 15, 2009
Sheer Poetry
May 08, 2009
London Underground
May 01, 2009
Britain has Talent
Apr 24, 2009
Reputational Damage
Apr 17, 2009
Bright Side of the Cane Toad
Apr 10, 2009
High-Priced Porn
Apr 03, 2009
The Speeding Judge
Mar 27, 2009
New Year Prediction
Jan 02, 2009
Jesus
Dec 26, 2008
It’s a Wrap
Dec 19, 2008
National Identity
Dec 12, 2008
Writers Room
Dec 05, 2008
Glamourising Terror
Nov 28, 2008
Bad Language
Nov 21, 2008
Robin the Hood
Nov 14, 2008
Changing the Government
Nov 07, 2008
How Rich is Rich?
Oct 31, 2008
Gaffes
May 09, 2008
Snoop and Amy
May 02, 2008
Instructions to the Sea
Apr 25, 2008
Legal Dilemmas
Apr 18, 2008
Right on the Money
Apr 11, 2008
Terminal Terminal
Apr 07, 2008
Pedal Power
Mar 28, 2008
State of Law
Mar 21, 2008
Private Life
Mar 14, 2008
Princes into Battle
Mar 07, 2008
Clams Are Happy
Aug 24, 2007
Click on the Icon
Aug 17, 2007
Desirable Devices
Aug 10, 2007
Smoking the Memory
Aug 03, 2007
Harry Potter Envy
Jul 27, 2007
Helplessly Advanced
Jul 20, 2007
Wimbledon Wisdom
Jul 13, 2007
Glider Shoes
Jul 06, 2007
Reflections on a Diamond Skull
Jun 29, 2007
Man-Made Beauty
Jun 22, 2007
Congratulations
Apr 06, 2007
Torture on 24
Mar 30, 2007
Black Destiny
Mar 23, 2007
Going for Gold
Mar 16, 2007
Because She’s Worth It
Mar 09, 2007
Nob Voices, Yob Voices
Mar 02, 2007
Flying People, Flagrant Piffle
Feb 23, 2007
Fidgets on the March
Feb 16, 2007
The Mind’s Construction in the Face
Feb 09, 2007
Attack of the Wheelie Bins
Feb 02, 2007