Spectator Life

You name it, you can — and for some reason people always do — put onion in it

My tangled web of basket weavers

What inspired the teachers’ union chief to U-turn on school reopenings?

Tuchel knows how to set up a team for a one-off match; Guardiola knows how to win long term

It’s considered reasonable to publicly hound a female academic — if she’s branded a ‘TERF’

If you have lived in Bath since the beginning of the pandemic you might not have noticed the changes so viscerally

As a vegetarian on the right, I would argue that there is nothing ‘traditional’ about modern livestock production

A death ray aimed at children’s minds

Albion College in Michigan seems to think so

There is no greater tabula rasa in the public imagination than grief.  Prince Philip’s four children – no strangers to the glare of public interest – now find themselves the target not of global ire, but rather unusually, of collective sympathy. For public figures, the warm light of communal compassion imbues recognition and significance on the lives

Four hundred years have passed since Seville was the greatest and most glamorous city on earth

Loafing, the Swedish way

A virtual party will have to do

Rabbits too

The Christians were speared to death by an indigenous tribe

And press outlets are perhaps the only places even more hostile to noticing uncomfortable truths than the average campus

Tudor architecture marked the first instance of Anglo domesticity recognizable today