4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (223+ words) I’m not one for patriotism, but one of the things that does stir it in me is Chicken Shop Date, the YouTube series in which comedian Amelia Dimoldenberg flirts with various musicians and actors over chicken nuggets and chips. But…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (464+ words) Prospect Magazine In praise of eccentrics Who’s afraid of eccentrics? Some see them as weirdos, outsiders, fundamentally off. As victims whose tics and sensibilities invite diagnosis or suspicion, they’re on the spectrum. Others, though, think of them as amiable mavericks,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (235+ words) These “historic events”, as Baudri calls them, are of course the events of the Norman Conquest. This described, imagined textile art winding its way around a noblewoman’s bedroom bears more than a striking resemblance to the Bayeux Tapestry. The continued…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (555+ words) On the train to Zurich I read a piece in the Times predicting that arts subjects will soon disappear from state schools altogether and will end up the preserve of private schools alone. There’s been a dramatic drop-off in teacher…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (291+ words) Killing time: scientists moved the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight this January. But Rovelli believes it’s not too late to turn it back And the moral of it all? “So much of the worst aggressivity comes from fear,” Rovelli says,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (122+ words) If this is where the story ended, and Dadd carried on making the same kind of work for the rest of his life—as polite society seemed enthusiastic for him to do—then we might have described him as an…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (498+ words) Earlier this month, pop star and actress Ariana Grande announced she was stepping back from the spotlight due to what a spokesperson called “endless, ongoing public scrutiny”. Essentially, this means she will no longer do media interviews, attend red carpet…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1118+ words) Prospect Magazine The capacious humanism of Victor Hugo Penguin has recently installed the French author’s last novel, ‘Ninety-Three’, in its line of Classics. The new translation is revelatory In Georgia, in 1894, a young priest-in-training called Ioseb Jughashvili was discovered reading…...