All mouth, no trousers?
Kenneth Branagh does seem to like taking his clothes off
What bloody man is this?
The Tragic History of Boris, thane of Uxbridge
Open lawfare
With crowd funding, private individuals can remake the Government itself in court
Penny for your thoughts
Laurie Penny writes a book about how to deliver change while actual feminists are getting their hands dirty
The Ensueing
Sue Gray’s report certainly can’t make anything worse
Hard Labour for Boris
Have cake, get others to eat cake, still have to pay for cake
How do you define a party anyway?
Downing street was caught in a trap of its own making
The strange death of conservatism
There will be no USSR riding to the rescue
Safety in genders
Tasmania has banned gay spaces for discriminating against “gender identity”
Brahms: Clarinet sonatas (BIS), French clarinet music (Delphian)
Three sonatas by Brahms? The clarinet adaptation, to no surprise, doesn’t work
For the fellas
In What Do Men Want?, Nina Power crafts a peace treaty between the sexes
Punta del where?
Old Europe lives on in the new world
Murders for January
While away the winter with would-be classics
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
The chance introduction that led to some extraordinary evenings with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
My interiors life: weaned on the small screen
My formative years and future
tastes in all things were formed by
1950s and 1960s television,
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
The myth of the Victorian Christmas
Our values today are of consumerism and instant gratification, inherited from our Victorian forebears
Recanting decanting
An expensive evacuation of the Palace of Westminster has now fallen out of favour
Unleash your inner Einstein
Science needn’t be difficult and dull, but we must inspire people with its wonders
Frankie Ho: Controversialist
Frankie Ho runs into trouble in the literary world
Welcome to Londongrad
We promise to respect Her Majesty’s life tenancy of Buckingham Palace
The greatest cancellation
Warriors against cancel culture have been loudest in calling for a republic
The road to Book Pyre Beacon
The cult of Woke has old roots, deep in the mulch of evangelical intolerance
The fit and famous
To strive, to struggle, to sweat, is to be human
Too woke to travel write?
Perhaps a little less introspection will see a renaissance of the troubled genre
In my ears and in my eyes
The Lyrics: the autobiography Paul McCartney never wrote
Thinking on inking
An intellectual tries — and fails — to find deep philosophical justifications for the modern wave of tattooing
Strange brew
The joy of letting unexpected, accidental music in
Double trouble in chaotic Comedy
Great times to be had in Canterbury despite occasionally clunky comedy and some scandalously overpriced wine
Awful states
Two political thrillers reveal the intimate cruelties of life under dictatorship
I’m a Classic FM convert
Ignore the snobs, trip the light (music) fantastic and bask in the shameless joy of Classic FM
Personal growth
Green fingers are not always innate, they can be acquired
Playing the game
The grey areas of the law: trying to lead a life on the right side of The Poaching Act
Scenting success
The wondrous whiff of sex, spice and civet
Festive frostiness
Claudia Savage Gore feels a chill around the kitchen island