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Columns, reviews, humour, and everything else from the print edition.
Our Cringe Century
Since the start of the millennium Britain has found new and exquisite ways to humiliate herself. Here, in order, are the most embarrassing moments.
5 May 2026
The Ceremonial Counties of England… Ranked!
A deeply subjective guide to the shires, starting at the top and finishing, of course, at the bottom. We brook no arguments.
17 December 2025
Lust Orders
Desire has left the apps and gone to the boozer. A dispatch on how London's pubs have become the city's theatres of desire.
1 October 2025
Big in Japan
You wouldn’t have met their fans, they go to a different school. In Canada.
16 June 2025
Nobel Endeavours II
We return to ask some stupid questions of the smartest people on Earth and, once more, our Nobelists oblige.
19 December 2024
Beach Bums
In France? Sure. In Italy? Why not. But in chilly Blighty? Surely nobody could stand it. Some can. We uncover the naked truth behind Britain’s nudist beaches and their stern, shrivelled patrons.
12 September 2024
Nature’s Cruellest Mistake
Take even a cursory glance at the natural world and very soon you will find all sorts of creatures with ridiculously outsized capabilities to slay the planet’s one true custodian: us lot, humankind.
12 September 2024
Who Louis Should’ve Met
Rather than the worthy docs about mental health and alcoholism, here are the programmes that Monsieur Theroux should have seen through: the weekends away with the freaks, bad hats and oddballs that…
12 September 2024
Proceed to Checkout
That Ninja creamy has been sitting in your basket for months now. And you're not really going to buy that ceremonial matcha bowl, are you?
12 September 2024
All Possible Plots II
You could read a book, but why bother? Here, we list all the possible plots every author could come up with instead.
20 August 2024
Baron Wastelands
We imagine barons as rural land magnates, shagging the wives of their miserable villein tenantry. But there are modern, urban peers too. Those who stalk the very streets of our capital.
7 August 2024
Confessions of a London Femcel
Why are women no longer having sex?
18 July 2024