4 Sep 2020 - 1:10am

Why Christopher Nolan needs to calm down There's nothing thrilling about over-complicated plots — they create confusion, not tension

Andrew Martin

04.09

In praise of autumn, the best of seasons In England the period when the leaves fall and the evenings darken is uniquely evocative and beautiful

Niall Gooch

03.09

Has lockdown left you with existential angst? Covid confinement has forced many to wrestle with thoughts of mortality and meaning

Giles Fraser

03.09

How to save British farming (and the countryside) As a farmer I've come to accept that our impact on nature is often destructive, but saving the landscape won't be cheap

James Rebanks

03.09

A portrait of power, warts and all A series of novels set in Cromwell's England shows that taking control is easy enough — but keeping it is much harder

James Kirkup

03.09

The tragedy of Britney Spears Everyone wants a piece of her: even the fans are complicit. But is there anything left to give?

Sarah Ditum

02.09

The commuters are revolting Does the Government fear an economic rebalancing away from the capital?

Mary Harrington

02.09

Six ways to fix our failing government The problems illustrated by the exam fiasco cannot be blamed on a 'mutant algorithm' alone

Paul Marshall

02.09

Let’s all meet up in the year 3000 It might finally be possible to slow down ageing. But who would want to?

Tom Chivers

02.09

The last gasps of a European empire An unfinished masterpiece set in imperial Vienna offers our MPs historical parallels — but no easy answers

Matthew Sweet

01.09

Why Fukuyama was right all along Long dismissed as liberal hubris, <I>The End of History</I> accurately predicted that the West's greatest threat comes from within

Aris Roussinos

01.09

Let’s be honest, the NHS is awful In public we lionise it; in private we share stories of its incompetence and heartlessness

Henry Jeffreys