The awkward truth about sex and free speech
More women should realise that “inclusivity” should not come before freedom
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
Struggles of an ageing matador
Familiarity can make the heart grow cooler, but greatness can still prevail
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
Sweet magic in Hokkaido
Sushi for breakfast, crisps for dessert and delicious chocolate
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Go west
Rishi has been a bit down lately
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
