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Stuart Jeffries

Stuart Jeffries

The Guardian

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Books / Are we all becoming hermits now?

Long before Covid, wi-fi and Deliveroo, Badger in The Wind in the Willows showed us how to live beyond the manifold fatuities of this gimcrack world....

18.04.2024 3

The Spectator

Stuart Jeffries

Books / The firebrand preacher who put Martin Luther in the shade

‘Now tell us, you miserable wretched sack of maggots,’ wrote Thomas Müntzer, sounding like the love child of Owen Jones and Ian Paisley, ‘who...

18.02.2024 10

The Spectator

Stuart Jeffries

Books / Has Germany finally shaken off its dark past?

In 1982, a board game appeared in West Germany. If you landed on square B9 you were sent to a refugee camp in Hesse where you became ill from...

04.01.2024 2

The Spectator

Stuart Jeffries

Arts / Has VR finally come of age?

A heavily made-up Iranian woman in bra and knickers is dancing seductively before me. We’re in some vast warehouse, and she’s swaying barefoot....

12.10.2023 2

The Spectator

Stuart Jeffries

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