A Point of View

When the world's first state pension was introduced in Prussia in 1889, the qualifying age was 70 an

Rebecca Stott ponders the nature of dust, as Spring sunshine sharpens the sight of it gathering in t

The coronation in 1953, which heralded a new Elizabethan age, was accompanied by that most famous of

The philosopher Michel de Certeau characterised space as ‘the practice of place’,Will Self argues th

Living in New York during lockdown, Adam Gopnik spent his time enjoying the escapism of foreign TV s

Sara Wheeler finds writing a biography to be a humanising process, in which learning to see the worl

Megan Nolan says millennial adulthood feels just as uneasy as her teenage years. Short term job cont

John Gray makes the case for proportional representation as a means to revive British politics and f

After being given an amaryllis as a gift, Howard Jacobson wonders why he's never stared at a flower.

Zoe Strimpel explores what lies behind her new-found impulse to collect art to fill the blank spaces

AL Kennedy finds echoes of the movies of her childhood in our current state of affairs. "Jaws, like

Trevor Phillips argues that Britain, in its desperation to eliminate inequality, risks destroying th

Sarah Dunant says the rediscovery of ideas from the past can help with 'the toxicity of the present'

Will Self on the pleasure of walking without purpose, with no final destination in mind, and the fre

Adam Gopnik challenges the idea that the artistic and literary creations of artificial intelligence

Rebecca Stott ponders if a move to more communal living could be key in solving some of our most pre

Zoe Strimpel looks at the history of masculinity and its moments of crisis, from Emile Durkheim at t

Megan Nolan ponders a bizarre alignment between her life and that of Prince Harry.'Sure, I was taugh

Tom Shakespeare looks to some DVD classics and the Japanese concept of ikigai to provide some light

Howard Jacobson reflects on why we look to comedy to see one year out and a new year in. Reflectin