Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat

There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation

And why the war is likely to continue anyway

The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable

On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood

A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age

On the architecture of recreation

It couldn’t happen here. Right?

Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)

Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan

Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities

Plotting a path through the new politics

A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism

Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?

A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all

Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire

1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town

Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties

Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing

Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories

Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause

Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built

Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom

Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors

High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors

Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?

Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp

Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak

Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines

A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant

Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care