A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
"Having been alone in the apartment now for almost three weeks," writes Adam Gopnik in New York, "I
"As our physical reality is reduced down to a few rooms or a view from a window," writes Sarah Dunan
"I have come to think of the virus as that monster from the ancient Norse legend of Beowulf, Grendel
"There is nothing some of us enjoy more," writes Adam Gopnik, "than finding analogies to our own pal
"There are some things that one just has to put up with," writes Tom Shakespeare. "Sometimes over-th
To recline....or not to recline your aeroplane seat?Adam Gopnik ponders the question of “recline-gat
"I am holding history in my hands," writes Sarah Dunant. "The date on the letter is February 1490..
"We have been here before, many times" writes Sarah Dunant as she charts some key moments in history
From the “pernicious fife-footlers polluting the sooty Victorian cities” to the “fiendish electronic
"Of all the men I never wanted to grow old into", writes Howard Jacobson, "this is the man I wanted
"All racism is a species not only of unreason... but of unreason enthusiastically embraced", writes
Following the death of the philosopher, author and self-professed Wagner fan, Sir Roger Scruton, thi
Will Self explores what he sees as a growing sense of collective hypocrisy. He looks at why we're o
"After months of hearing about the climate emergency", writes Rebecca Stott, "I thought it would be
"I've long been fascinated with taxidermy", writes Rebecca Stott, "but it disturbs me". She explain
“Whatever humans do, the world is not going to end”, writes John Gray. “Humankind cannot destroy the
"I can no longer force myself", writes Will Self, "to make choices that appear quite meaningless to
John Gray tells the story of Archy and Mehitabel, a newspaper column created in 1916 by the US journ
Following the death of the brilliantly funny Clive James - one of the first presenters of "A Point o
"In all things erotic", writes Adam Gopnik, "morals and manners run at right angles to each other".