A Point of View

"The strange kind of liberalism that is currently in fashion," writes John Gray, "has rejected toler

The writer, Katherine Mansfield, was diagnosed with TB in 1917. She travelled across Europe - tryin

"If we accept that gender is something imposed on us," writes Bernardine Evaristo, "as opposed to in

"There's nothing wrong with ambition," writes Linda Colley, "but coming to terms with our inescapabl

"Once in a blue moon," writes Rebecca Stott, "new technologies become available that make it possibl

Will Self on why a novelty bottle opener - with little plastic seahorses floating in an acrylic hand

"In the absence of sports, sports radio thrives," writes Adam Gopnik, "and churns and heaves and roi

"We need to challenge how we historicise the past and give it a thorough spring clean," writes Berna

"There is a piece of advice that my white British friends seem never to receive but which I have had

Mary Beard asks if the iconic university lecture might have had its day, in the aftermath of the pan

"It seemed to occur to nobody in the Cummings hunt that the greater good would almost certainly have

"I put myself under lock and key a week before everyone else after a clammy jogger in a pink velvete

"However different our days are, we are all waiting," writes Rebecca Stott. Via Samuel Beckett, a w

"Others may thrill to the serendipity of bacon-and-eggs," writes Will Self, "but it's the determinis

"She'd been waiting for the catastrophe to end catastrophes all her life and now it was here she see

AL Kennedy ponders why we're bad at assessing risks. "We prioritize them according to emotion and i

"I can't have been alone among those quarantined these past few weeks," writes Will Self, "in seekin

Zia Haider Rahman describes the "profound moral questions" facing society as it starts to discuss ho

"I’ve been thinking about projects left unfinished," writes Rebecca Stott. " I’ve got the pages of

"I can see her on my phone, I can even hear her on my phone, but I can't feel her weight in my arms