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The Storyteller

What no one wants to say about the Coldplay cheating scandal

by Clare Stephens | Jul 28, 2025

It’s all anyone wants to talk about. At a time of unprecedented media fragmentation - where there are fewer and fewer shared cultural moments, because we’re all consuming content in deeper and deeper silos - the Coldplay affair has united us all. On Wednesday 16 July, a man named Andy Byron was...

The Analyst

Sorting out football’s governance mess

by Oliver Ash | May 20, 2025

There has been so much talk about the proposed new football regulator and anxious debate about exactly what he, she or it should or shouldn’t be responsible for that it is easy...

The Farmer

Ghostly advice before the battle

by Martin Hole | May 6, 2025

Just before Christmas I attended the funeral of my old housemaster, Forbes Wastie. A man I adored, he also taught biology and in later life was Chair of the local magistrate’s...

The Storyteller

On the road in Roanoke

by Garrison Keillor | Apr 28, 2025

As we watch a white Christian patriarchy exert its influence in Washington, I think back to H.L. Mencken whom I admired back in eighth grade for his sharp tongue. I come from...

Investor's Notebook

Be more Myles Lewis-Skelly

by Sabina Reeves | Apr 14, 2025

Sometimes it feels that waiting for the capital market recovery is like waiting for Arsenal to win the League. Each of the last two seasons we have started with high hopes in our...

The Analyst

One big thing the legacy media gets wrong: Analysis is not “opinion”

by Noah Smith | Apr 7, 2025

Every year, I write one navel-gazing post about what I do for a living. Past instalments include “Noah Smith’s writing advice”, “How to write a successful Substack”, “How to be...

The Storyteller

An account of what i’ve been up to

by Garrison Keillor | Mar 31, 2025

I’ve just finished a ten day solo tour down South as the World’s Oldest Stand-Up and it was a major adventure for an old guy with memory issues who keeps forgetting the word...

The Storyteller

Letter From Paris: Restaurant Le Train Bleu

by Andy Watson | Mar 24, 2025

‘Une invitation au voyage’ Last Monday I took the TGV from Paris to Cannes to attend the annual MIPIM property conference. This grand and familiar train journey was preceded by a...

The Storyteller

Another executive order from me

by Garrison Keillor | Mar 17, 2025

I’ve gotten a rave report from Bayfield, Wisconsin, that relatives of a friend slaughtered a hog and put on a pork feast for neighbours and that fresh pork compared to...

Investor's Notebook

This Thing Will Fail: Trump will not restore the “strong gods”

by Noah Smith | Mar 13, 2025

“Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.” — Jerry Seinfeld N.S. Lyons is a popular essayist in the “national conservative” tradition. His...