Battered but unbowed
Don’t bring a bottle. Your chances of finding a party in full swing down those chilly corridors are close to…
How the Treasury maintains its power
Don’t bring a bottle. Your chances of finding a party in full swing down those chilly corridors are close to…
The Female Persuasion, by Meg Wolitzer reviewed
It’s because it’s the land of the loner that the United States is so loved or loathed. Yet to me…
Bored and lonely in Kathmandu
It started as a ‘shoke’ — the Anglo-Indian slang word for ‘hobby’. Bored and lonely in Kathmandu, the young Assistant…
Shaping divinity to our ends
It slips so easily off the tongue. In fact, it’s a modern mantra. ‘Religion causes all the wars.’ Karen Armstrong…
Captivated by Karl
If a title works once, the chances are it will work again. Half the punch of Marx’s masterwork is in…
Diary
You have to hand it to Supermac. Fifty years after the event, he is still running rings round them. The…
Shady groves of academe
The scene is the common room of All Souls College, Oxford, in the first week of March 1963. It is…
