Big Furniture, Small Staircases: Making an Apartment Move Work
Moving into or out of an apartment can be complicated even when the furniture is modest. Add an oversized sectional, a solid wood wardrobe, or…
Piddington’s very English revolution
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 the odds against us,” he…
The cinema of 9/11
I cannot recall the year now; I ought to be ashamed. But my grandfather had died in his back garden in Hackbridge on the southern edge of London. Grandma called…
Trump’s Boomer-palooza
It’s nearly 9 p.m. inside Dallas’s American Airlines Center, and Trump supporters are waving their cowboy hats in the air. They are slowly rocking from side to side as Lee…
The working class isn’t asking for pity
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…
America’s awful post-9/11 remake
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…
Welcome to the AI doom wars
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…
How lust overcame liberalism
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…
Are you diverse enough to foster?
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 AI revolution will devour Apple
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…
Will the British Right lose us the Falklands?
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,…