A Point of View

Michael Morpurgo reflects on our future connection with the First World War. "How will we pass it on

Howard Jacobson discusses the politics of dress - form religious clothing ....via too short trousers

Howard Jacobson on the end of mooching as a way of life."Rooting around, doing nothing in particular

Howard Jacobson reflects on maleness in the aftermath of the Brett Kavanaugh story."With every sniff

Val McDermid argues that the sheer scale of tourism on a shoestring is destroying the very thing we

Val McDermid asks if Sadiq Khan’s plan for a Glasgow-style crime reduction unit can have the same tr

Val McDermid argues that crime fiction isn't really about murder at all."We shift people out of thei

Adam Gopnik examines the issues raised by the row between Serena Williams and an umpire."The questio

Adam Gopnik on why the prefixes we use speak volumes about us.The "pregnant prefix", Adam writes, "i

"To stand in the corridor of a crowded locked ward in a contemporary British mental hospital" writes

Tom Shakespeare is downsizing. But what to do with his books?He points out that he has nothing like

Tom Shakespeare on why he rejects the idea of a bucket list. He proposes instead an idea dreamt up b

As we near the end of four years of collective reflection on the First World War, Michael Morpurgo t

Michael Morpurgo argues it's time to think again over Brexit. "It is surely time to accept that we h

Michael Morpurgo on a new initiative to help refugee children. Michael says "it shames us" that Brit

John Gray argues that in the Brexit debate, few Remainers seem to have noticed the illiberal and fra

Sarah Dunant on her uneasy conundrum over inheritance tax. "Like most intelligent beings", Sarah wri

Adam Gopnik sets out to determine the difference between cliche and universal truth. Via Homer, Shak

Will Self argues that the past is not "a foreign country". He says we often have delusions about the

"What would it be like to consciously feel you were nothing but a robotic phenotype", asks Will Self