Even the most devoted cultist is, in some sense, having fun Some conspiracy theories are more interesting than others. The most boring kind is also the most popular. Somewhere, there’s a sinister ...

So Thursday came and Oxford went to the polls And made its coward vote and the streets resounded To the triumphant cheers of the lost souls – The profiteers, the dunderheads, the smarties. From Autumn ...

Proudly displayed in the window of my local Barnes and Noble are copies of a children’s book called Zohran Walks ...

John Mulaney appeared to be just another of those identical, slick, clean-cut, young comedians in suits until Covid. But ...

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The latest Super Bowl offers the most recent opportunity to reflect on the terminal state of our national culture, ...

I could never be fatigued by the spongy similarity of a golden syrup pudding and a bronzely glistening ginger one but they all come from the same sponge playbook, so I was intrigued to find one that ...

Members of book clubs are notorious for never actually reading the book ...

The two main harms of government regulation, to be balanced against any benefits, are cost and delay. But there is another ...

I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, written by Jonathan Lynn (who co-wrote the original TV series), brings us the former PM in semi-retirement as the Master of Hacker College, Oxford. Jim, now Lord Hacker, is ...

There is an old joke about Nigel Farage, put about by former colleagues. ‘Why is Nigel like a beech tree?… Because nothing grows under him.’ The comparison to this acid-leafed tree which stifles all ...

The heart of the game – though the story contains surprising emotional and thematic depth – is the climbing simulation. You position Aava’s limbs one by one, reading the rock-face to find holds and ...