A Point of View

Although he loves to read collections of private letters by public figures, Adam Gopnik feels distur

Adam Gopnik wonders why religious people are feeling "persecuted" following the US Supreme Court rul

Adam Gopnik's ten-year family reunion brings into focus the passage of time. "The inescapable mater

Adam Gopnik's experience of writing a libretto casts light on the mysterious relationship between wo

Adam Gopnik found himself supplanted as his family's waffle maker while he was away on a trip and co

"A school's core strength is that it's a school" writes AL Kennedy. She argues that the "monetisatio

"I'm getting old. Not older, just old" begins AL Kennedy. Through childhood memories of drinking Cre

AL Kennedy takes the recent death of a friend - the screenwriter Gill Dennis - as her starting point

AL Kennedy says the election results in Scotland reflect a surge in political engagement in which pe

David Cannadine says when Barack Obama's critics accuse him of acting like a king they're forgetting

The American writer PJ O'Rourke gives his view of the UK election. "In the once solidly red-rosette

David Cannadine reflects on the merits of youth and age in our political leaders and finds the curre

David Cannadine compares the enthusiasm for national commemorations in Britain with the more underst

Howard Jacobson explains why he prefers art to ideology, especially at election time, and always has

Howard Jacobson explains why he dislikes the narcissism of the selfie."It's always possible that the

Howard Jacobson thinks the current focus of male fashion on the ankle region or "mankle", revealed b

Tom Shakespeare says that disabled people's right to independent living is under threat as a result

Tom Shakespeare thinks our reformed Select Committees have revitalised Parliament but he warns again

Tom Shakespeare says increasing wisdom in middle age is at least some compensation for declining cog

Will Self reflects on the unsettling nature of time. "What gives our human cultures any sense of coh