Echt Croatian classics
Burek, cotolette and layer cake in Zagreb
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Age discrimination
When I was a precocious Young Conservative, people were most willing to tell me they disagreed with me and I thrived on it. But how much of a challenge does Greta Thunberg
A penny saved
"60 per cent of coppers are used only once before being consigned to a piggy bank. Clearly, few can bear to feel their pockets weighed down with coins of such small worth"
A question of attribution
The forthcoming sale of a purported Caravaggio is set to exceed £100m, but its provenance is far from clear
Baked-in bias
‘Once social media entities become publishers, any political bias already present will be baked in’
Belly of the beast
The Booker-winning Marlon James takes on the fantasy genre with a novel sent in a phantasmagorical version of Africa
Be mindful of the latest magic bullet
Mindfulness is all the rage, from big corporations to the NHS. Is it a panacea for many societal problems or just a short-lived fad?
Bombs reopen Sri Lanka’s divisions
Islamist terror attacks in Colombo revealed government incompetence
Border bard
"Patrick Kavanagh wrote about an Ireland that “froze for want of Europe”. He was thinking of an Ireland that history had removed from the mainstream of European culture"
Clubland battle of the bookmen
When a gossip columnist criticised Thackeray, Dickens weighed in to savage his rival
Cry, the rapidly crumbling country
President Ramaphosa has won the election but his position is fragile: South Africa faces poverty, inequality and corruption almost entirely self-inflicted by the ruling ANC
A book you can safely pass over
The radical Jewdas Haggadah provides a rag-week version of the Passover ceremony for pubescent Marxists