Popular Culture
March 14, 2009 The BBC, the National Emergency and Fiscal Stimulus: Jeremy Black proposes cutting the license fee to boost the economy Jeremy Black
December 03, 2008 Theodore Dalrymple contemplates Richey Edwards and the Punk Ethic - and decides that on balance he does not approve Theodore Dalrymple
November 05, 2008 The Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross affair illustrates why young Britons are everywhere loathed and despised - says Theodore Dalrymple Theodore Dalrymple
November 03, 2008 Canny old Auntie pursuing the longish game - says Richard D. North Richard D. North
August 13, 2008 Brendan Simms asks, couldn't James Bond be doing more in the War on Terror? For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond at the Imperial War Museum Brendan Simms
June 18, 2008 You too can be Dan Brown: William Norton reveals the secret 10-step programme for writing a Dan Brown-style best-selling doorstep-sized novel William Norton
June 05, 2008 No we can't all be special - and to think we can is a road to personal unhappiness and social breakdown, argues Peter Whittle - author of Look at Me: Celebrating the Self in Modern Britain Peter Whittle
May 08, 2008 Richard D. North debates Lincoln Allison's The Disrespect Agenda: Or How the Wrong Kind of Niceness Is Making Us Weak and Unhappy - and remembers what a conflicted bunch conservatives are Richard D. North
March 10, 2008 Magic Moments at Covent Garden: Going to a Schools' Matinee gives one a much better impression of contemporary schoolchildren than one gets from newspapers or television, argues Lincoln Allison Lincoln Allison
March 10, 2008 Theodore Dalrymple on the Scarlett Keeling murder in Goa: were our confused attitudes to foreign cultures a contributory factor? Theodore Dalrymple
February 19, 2008 Obsessive gambling is now regarded as a mental illness - but, argues Theodore Dalrymple, does that not mean that the Disability Discrimination Act makes it illegal for bookies to discriminate against obsessive gamblers by banning them from their shops? Theodore Dalrymple
January 23, 2008 Theodore Dalrymple is outraged to be asked his ethnicity by officialdom - but remembers that it is our social duty to grin and bear insults Theodore Dalrymple
January 11, 2008 Radio One should not exist: it is an example of the pervasive corporatist corruption of the British state - argues Theodore Dalrymple Theodore Dalrymple
November 30, 2007 Pop Art Portraits and the 1960s - Christie Davies has a flashback of all the nightmares and all the cheerful memories of the 1960s: Pop Art Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery Christie Davies
November 23, 2007 Lesbians and the Cardinal: Christie Davies argues that Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor is wrong to oppose IVF for lesbian couples Christie Davies
October 23, 2007 The BBC - a communications failure: Richard D. North - author of Scrap the BBC! - asks, why are the BBC management so inept at communication? Richard D. North
October 19, 2007 Laptop Warriors - Seamus Sweeney on the rise of the "hacker" novel: The Stealing The Network series Seamus Sweeney
October 11, 2007 William D. Rubinstein mourns the decline and fall of the Guinness Book of World Records William D. Rubinstein
September 26, 2007 A celebration of celebrity? Celebrity: The Photographs of Terry O'Neill - Terry O'Neill and A. A. Gill A S H Smyth
September 11, 2007 Semi-Secret Heroes: Lincoln Allison picks six of the best - Barbara Jefford, Tommy James, Mick Channon, Michael Hardman, Francisco Franco, Alistair Horne Lincoln Allison
September 06, 2007 T-Shirt Heads: Lincoln Allison picks six of the worst - John Lennon, George Best, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Salman Rushdie, John Osborne, Princess Diana Lincoln Allison
July 04, 2007 The (Royal) Show Must Go On - Except this year: Lincoln Allison reports from the Royal Show in the year the last day was rained off Lincoln Allison
May 23, 2007 Harry Phibbs goes to the most civilised of gigs - Countryside Rocks in aid of the Countryside Alliance Harry Phibbs
April 23, 2007 Brendan Simms tries his hand at being a secret agent: The Science of Spying at the Science Museum Brendan Simms
February 19, 2007 Lilian Pizzichini asks, what does the way we let Bernard Matthews treat his turkeys say about us? Lilian Pizzichini
February 05, 2007 Theodore Dalrymple finds a cure for the German malady of low blood pressure: read The Guardian's job advertisements Theodore Dalrymple
January 24, 2007 Scrap the BBC!: Richard D. North argues that the notion of an impartial broadcaster is one whose time has gone Richard D. North
January 22, 2007 Harry Phibbs asks, how can the producers of Celebrity Big Brother find celebrities that are so obscure that a gossip columnist has never heard of them? Harry Phibbs
January 19, 2007 Lilian Pizzichini asks, are we enthralled by Big Brother - and Jade Goody's bullying of Shilpa Shetty - because we enjoy seeing other people's degradation? Lilian Pizzichini
December 13, 2006 The Only Ones at Christmas: Richard D. North on his favourite of all time, now deployed by Vodafone Richard D. North
December 07, 2006 Inverted Sexism: once supposed gender differences were used to justify a preferential position for men - now supposed gender differences are increasingly used to call for a preferential position for women, argues Prof. Michael Bentley Michael Bentley
November 03, 2006 Foodies, Faddies, Fogeys and Fanatics: Lincoln Allison responds to The English at Table and argues that Digby Anderson is (partially) wrong about English food Lincoln Allison
October 31, 2006 William D. Rubinstein asks, when the BBC admits its own bias why will politicians take no serious action to tackle it? William D. Rubinstein
October 06, 2006 Lincoln's Law of Wine: Lincoln Allison rants about wine - and explains why he favours rough trade when it comes to wine Lincoln Allison
October 05, 2006 The Spitfire at the Science Museum: Christopher Peachment marvels at a beautiful object which - whatever some historians might now say - saved Britain from Nazi domination Christopher Peachment
October 05, 2006 The End of the Newspaper? William D. Rubinstein argues that reports of the death of the newspaper have been greatly exaggerated William D. Rubinstein
September 19, 2006 The Roots of Rage and Pride: Marc Sidwell considers the learning of Oriana Fallaci Marc Sidwell
August 30, 2006 Photos of the aftermath of fires taken by the London Fire Brigade offer us a picture of what news photos may soon all be like, argues Christopher Peachment: The London Fire Brigade Archive at The Photographers' Gallery Christopher Peachment
August 29, 2006 Christie Davies admires the work of Julie Foreman, a rising American photographer whose photographs are being exhibited in Tuscany - Julie Foreman's photographs at Monteriggioni Castello, Tuscany Christie Davies
August 04, 2006 Christie Davies sneers at the death of Che Guevara, laughs at Che's admirers and urges a boycott of the V&A Guevara exhibition - Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon at the V&A Christie Davies
June 16, 2006 Lilian Pizzichini on how the back page took over the front page: Front Page: Celebrating 100 Years of the British Newspaper 1906-2006 at the British Library Lilian Pizzichini
May 18, 2006 Da Vinci Ballyhoo: Why Rev'd Peter Mullen will be going to see The Da Vinci Code Peter Mullen
May 12, 2006 Anyone for Opus Dei? What makes The Da Vinci Code such a bestseller? Myles Harris finds out Myles Harris
April 24, 2006 In (Partial) Defence of Yobs: We are facing an epidemic of yobbophobia, not yobbery - argues ex-yob (and university academic) Lincoln Allison Lincoln Allison
March 15, 2006 The High Street invasion: Richard D. North celebrates the supermarket and welcomes their entry into the High Street Richard D. North