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Just offer women elective caesarians
Given all the near-apocalyptic news stories we’ve been treated to over the last six months, you can be forgiven if you didn’t notice the recent Ockenden…
 • Rowan Davies
I hate being on TV
The early 2000s weren’t all sparkles and rainbows (the clothes were awful, for one thing); but there was a sense that — to adapt the New Labour anthem …
 • Rowan Davies
West End girls and East End boys
Midway through The Gold (BBC, 2023), Neil Forsyth’s series about the 1983 Brinks Mat robbery, there’s a truly great parable about British class.
 • Rowan Davies
Reacher at rest
You can get a bit exhausted, sometimes, by the complexity of real life: the weight of people’s experiences and difficulties, and the way that absolutely…
 • Rowan Davies
The Pitt: progressives in despair
SPOILER WARNING:
 • Rowan Davies
Avoiding President Farage
Those who walk away from Sandringham
 • Rowan Davies
Swansea beach
Content warning for sexual assault
 • Rowan Davies
Whatever happened to Jennifer Lopez?
Nobble, nobble
 • Rowan Davies
I don't think about you at all
There’s a famous dunk in Mad Men in which some young dweeb in a plaid coat (I don’t know who he is, because I’d stopped watching Mad Men by this point…
 • Rowan Davies
The corporate theory of value
I seem to have accidentally retired at the grand age of 54 (thus becoming one of the 50--64-year-olds whose ‘economic inactivity’ forms part of the…
 • Rowan Davies
Bimbo eruption
SPOILER WARNING for Primary Colors (the novel and the film)
 • Rowan Davies
Enjoy yourself; it’s later than you think
When I was about 13, I overheard a piece of music in the background of a Radio 4 programme and found myself desperately needing to know what it was.
 • Rowan Davies
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