Will Self

Come on Tate Gallery, if you really feel the need to right a historic injustice, do it by ameliorating a contemporary one

Government and culture do not mix.. just look what happened last time

My decades-long relationship with a fake blue plaque has been rekindled by a new Labour government

The programme has become a surpassingly saccharine exercise in shining up the superficialities of celebrity

You can understand why people want to at least take back some semblance of control, when their passport is eventually stamped and they enter the “other country” of serious illness

Is there no land so remote nowadays that its cuisine can’t receive the descriptor ‘street’ and be flogged from a stall at lunchtime to British workers?

All Olympics opening ceremonies that offer kulturkampf instead of pure spectacle suffer from the same regression to the tacky

The women’s 800m final causes our writer to pose some awkward questions around race

Gentrification was supposed to be the beginning of an end. But if anything Brixton seems livelier than it has done for years

For secular people, death places the sort of minor inconveniences which, for the most part, irradiate our mundane lives, in a savage sort of proportion