Murder on the Dancefloor?
Government plans to send undercover police into nightclubs are absurd and destructive
Over the top with Boris
The prime minister is trying to portray the Covid pandemic as a war. It isn’t one
The Silicon Valley English Dictionary
Twitter’s engineers agree that prejudice is hard-coded in our language
Sex and violence: Titian’s Metamorphoses
The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July
Follow the money
We need to reset the overseas development aid discussion
A Covid bounce?
The election results on Thursday haven’t proved lockdown sceptics were wrong
The end of the road
Nick Cohen has adopted a new workout: wrestling with a novel
Johanna Martzy/Michael Mann (DG Eloquence)
The fruits of Michael Mann’s musical career is neither one thing nor another; trapped between Weimar modernism and American consumerism
A new refuge for controversial ideas is an indictment of academia
In a better world, the Journal of Controversial Ideas wouldn’t need to exist
The long arm of the Chekists
This book is an apt metaphor for the state of freedom of speech in modern Britain
Beethoven/Schnittke: Violin concertos (BIS)
This fabulous interpretation of the Beethoven concerto is one of the records of the year
Trans activist’s car crash interview
Repeating “no debate” for years has left these organisations unable to answer questions
Burning down the House
Parliament will be destroyed if the narrow-minded idiocy of MPs like Dehenna Davison get their way
Breaking the doom loop
If we don’t return to normal now, when can we?