Ian Jack

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  Inside Llewyn Davis has its pleasures and its flaws, as did the folk movement

  17 Jan 2014: Ian Jack: The Coen brothers' new film about a 1960s folk singer in Greenwich Village is a reminder of how authenticity became the rod that folk music made for its own back

• An MBE for hairdressing? Why not – but the honours system really won't do

  10 Jan 2014:

  Ian Jack: It's just about possible to take the honours system with a good-natured pinch of salt. But still inscribing "For God and the Empire" on every medal is not right

• Will fear for our imperilled planet be enough to make me turn vegetarian?

  3 Jan 2014:

  Ian Jack: The impact of the meat industry upon our environment really should induce the kind of sleepless terror that forces people to give up their worst habits

• Skype and cheap calls give an illusion of closeness, but homesickness is still real

  20 Dec 2013: Ian Jack: People are keener than ever to leave for new and faraway places; does technology keep them close to what they have left, or make them pine for it all the more?

• Repetition, not veracity, was my gripe with this week's Mandela mourning

  13 Dec 2013: Ian Jack: My distrust of being told what to think and feel by the media has made the unrelenting Mandela fest hard to bear

• How far can privatisation go? Perhaps government itself could be outsourced

  6 Dec 2013:

  Ian Jack: The 'selling of the family silver' that began in earnest under Thatcher is still in train; sometimes I wonder if the entire political class should be put out to tender

• Would I choose a British or Scottish passport? It's fast becoming a reality

  29 Nov 2013: Ian Jack: The white paper on Scottish independence understands that the old, hard edges of nationhood are irrelevant to many

• Sachin Tendulkar's retirement was India's Princess Diana moment

  22 Nov 2013: Ian Jack: In Mumbai this week, it was sometimes necessary to be reminded that Sachin Tendulkar had not in fact died, but merely given up playing international cricket

• The Invisible Spirit: A Life of Postwar Scotland 1945-75 by Kenneth Roy – review

  21 Nov 2013: Ian Jack on murderers, mines and the Scottish imagination

• What of all the vanished foods we can never taste again?

  15 Nov 2013:

  Ian Jack: Proust's madeleines opened a door to a forgotten world of feeling; but with Savormix, I just miss the taste

• The UK still needs lots of ships. If only we could build more of them ourselves

  8 Nov 2013: Ian Jack: Warships have become the last ships that Britain really does. For a country that easily within living memory owned the world's largest merchant fleet, this looks like a savage form of self-harm

• I remember our killer storm of 1968, but who else south of Carlisle does?

  1 Nov 2013:

  Ian Jack: The much-hyped winds of St Jude have made me reflect on a litany of natural disasters that have shaped Scotland's national identity – but are unknown tragedies for England

• I first saw Grangemouth's flames as a boy. It's a relief they still burn for now

  25 Oct 2013:

  Ian Jack: Grangemouth was one of the places that made Scotland seem modern when I was a boy – it survives for now, but the spectre of cheap shale gas from the US remains

• London will soon become home to only the very rich and the poor

  19 Oct 2013:

  Ian Jack: The capital threatens to become the world HQ of speculative house-buying – the social damage may be immense

• The Indian civil service still rests on a frame built by the British

  12 Oct 2013: Ian Jack: The Indian Administrative Service, the foundations of which were laid under British rule, survives as a still-impressive public institution. Here is one of the better legacies of empire

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