Moving from a California apartment or condominium to Hawaii can feel very different from relocating between two mainland neighborhoods. The household may be smaller, but…
At a packed village hall meeting in picturesque Piddington, parish council leader Tim McNally railed against the British state. “The Government has stacked all of…
Montague Rhodes James was the greatest writer of ghost stories in the English language. I think that greatness lies in his consistency. This might seem…
When, in 2024, the fashion model Julia Fox said she hadn’t had sex since 2021, I found it interesting — but not at all surprising.…
I had my first sight of Edna O’Brien on the stage of the Gate Theater in Dublin in the mid-Sixties. Censorship of books, plays and…
Moving from a California apartment or condominium to Hawaii can feel very different from relocating…
In January 1924, a breathless editorial in the Manchester Guardian marveled at the prospect of the first ever government run by the Labour Party. A minor miracle had transpired: Ramsay…
The Houthi leaders who’ve overrun the Yemeni coast of the Bab el-Mandeb are a piece of work. Within hours of their takeover, they promised $500 payments to local residents in…
On Monday, Jacob Coxon briefly became the most talked-about man in Silicon Valley. Resigning from his job as a researcher at Anthropic, he assailed his ex-employer in the bluntest of…
The groin wants what it wants, as Emily Dickinson didn’t quite write. But this is exactly the refrain from middle-aged male scribes, drooling in print over the young actress Sadie…
Fiona*, our new social worker, had checked the padlocked bolt on our garden-shed door; she had run her hand over our mattresses to make sure they were soft. Now she…
The physical mobile phone seems to have stagnated. Take the next iPhone, which new Apple CEO John Ternus has just unveiled. Featuring a folding screen and incrementally improved processing, that…
There is something Pavlovian about Argentine leaders: show them low approval ratings and they start salivating over “las Malvinas”. Javier Milei never used to lose much sleep over this rocky,…
Tragedy has a way of unifying movements. For the Right, no recent event seemed more likely to generate such a galvanizing effect than the assassination of Charlie Kirk exactly one…
The Southbank Center has hosted many great cultural events over the years. In 1951, the Festival of Britain almost single-handedly dragged British art out of its postwar slump. In 1958,…
Romance fiction is the genre of masochism: it’s less about love than control, less about pleasure than pain. This is why Matthew Sweet calls his superb new life of Cartland…