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…
The enshittification of Netflix
Do you remember Adolescence, the Netflix hit that prompted all that soul-searching about teenage boys? The series won many plaudits for the streaming giant, which Ofcom recently revealed is the…
The return of the foot fetish
Last week, the 31-year-old actress Margaret Qualley showed up to the London premiere of her newest film, The Dog Stars, wearing a “barefoot heel cap sandal” from Chanel — a…
Should feminists pity Lindsay Clancy?
In 2006, a British man called John Hogan leapt from a fourth-floor hotel balcony, holding his two small children in his arms. He had been arguing with his wife during…
Germany’s Nord Stream grudge
The Germans have just caught another alleged member of the group that bombed the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022. Volodymyr Zhuravlev, a deep-sea diver, was detained last week…
The sacred art of graffiti
For many years I had been obsessed by cave art. In the late summer of 2025, I traveled to Carcassonne to host a literary salon at Convenanza, the late DJ…
The red telephone box can save Britain
In the old St Pancras graveyard nestled behind King’s Cross, there is a tomb. Engraved with pineapples and an ouroboros, and crowned with a shallow dome, it is the resting…
The return of the loony Left
Every so often, social groups fall prey to mass hysteria. The “choreomania” of 1518 saw several hundred Strasbourg peasants dance themselves to death. It lasted weeks, with victims convulsing rhythmically…
The collapse of the postwar order
Since 1945, several pillars of Western life have been taken as given. First, that Western armies can more or less have their way with lesser powers and that guerrilla resistance…
The Great Dumb-Down is here
I have spent most of my adult life in elite universities; first as a student, then doing teaching and research. It now feels inevitable that I would live this way,…
Germany’s demographic disaster
Early on 13 August 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided. The East German regime was building the Berlin Wall in a desperate attempt to stop its people…