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Commissioners in Chief
The BBC have announced their new director general. What a title! It got us thinking, what do chin-stroking auteurs and masters of military strategy have in common? Total dedication to the cause.
5 March 2021
At the Altar of Capital
How the Conservative Party lost their religion to the pull of the market.
12 January 2021
Monet! Monet! Monet!
Every art gallery is confronted with a question: when does someone’s money become unacceptable?
23 December 2020
What the LRB Bought Me
We asked contributors how they spark joy in this diminishing world.
16 December 2020
The State of Nature
A classic treatise against men writing about the natural world.
7 December 2020
Food Fight
Over the past few years, food media has become a fractious place.
5 December 2020
Pray not to Be Gay
Inside the sick, sad world of conversion therapy.
29 November 2020
Life on the Cut
Projectile excrement, dodgy deals and bizarre characters – that's life as a continuous cruiser on London’s waterways.
27 November 2020
FBPE Fantasia
Unpicking the last four years of Remaniac delusions.
23 November 2020
Chef Bites Back: Marina O’Loughlin
Five stars on the house for the Sunday Times' anonymous critic!
23 October 2020
Herdmindedness
Do good novelists have to write good novels?
10 October 2020
Who Called Boris on Friday?
A tipster’s guide to which donor forced through the grouse shooting exemption.
15 September 2020