The sight of a well-dressed Extinction Rebellion member grounding a commercial airliner at London City Airport brought to mind a certain type of apocalyptic thriller.
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Satan in Goray is a study of what happens when people try “to resolve a hundred dilemmas with one answer”. The dilemmas
One of the keys to Britain’s success has been its ability to harness the energy of a particular type: the institutional rebel. From Francis Drake
We live in a society dominated by healthism. Yet this modern puritanism suffers from a paradox: the more unrealistic the health guidelines, the more we
What does Nigel Farage read? Like a true populist, he is wary of citing political influences which may later prove unhelpful. Left to conjecture, allow
The wedding of Harry and Meghan was supposed to hold a mirror up to a modern world in which anyone can ascend the rank of
Next time you are out on your bicycle and a Lycra-wearing Superman pulls up next to you at the lights, try this. “Hm,” you say,
The Serpentine Swimming Club – which meets every morning of the year in Hyde Park – epitomises a certain sort of Englishness. Eccentric, self-organising, understated
If you are going to Italy this summer – even for the tenth time – you need a copy of Luigi Barzini’s 1964 book The
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