Sacred calves
Parental regret should be taboo — because the children might be listening
Chaos Begat Chaos In Kenosha
Kyle Rittenhouse isn’t a cause, but a consequence
What we talk about when we want to do nothing
The problematic discourse is disingenuous opportunism
Leave those kids alone
You have to wonder what the government has against the young
Remembering Norm Macdonald
Like Peter Cook, he made being funny seem as natural as yawning
The gentrification of Drill
The bleak origins of Drill music shouldn’t be forgotten
Christopher Hitchens’s War
Commentators used 9/11 to keep framing the world as liberty versus totalitarianism
Funny old priorities
Why did Sarah Hussein’s death not attract anything like the interest in Sarah Everard?
Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
The Polish Government’s animal welfare plans have created a political crisis
Poland votes to ban fur farming and ritual slaughter
Truly global view of World War II
Richard Overy has done a signal service with this compellingly written, impressively researched book
Born left
With love, and money, and mobilised state action, True Jeremy can happen
The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany
John McCloy freed Hitler’s favourite industrialists. Their firms still dominate the country’s economy
Belfast’s best-kept secret
John Self welcomes the reissue of three works by Brian Moore, one of Northern Ireland few novelists who can stand toe-to-toe with the contemporary greats
Going nowhere
Covid-19 travel laws “may change with little warning”, so why plan ahead?
High art
Serenhedd James heads to Burlington House for the RA’s summer show
Play it again, Sam
Nostalgia has long been the key to pop’s survival
Yes Officer
If the police won’t curb their officers’ active politicking, politicians may have to
Round Midnight: Dutilleux, Merlin, Schoenberg (Erato)
This is razzle-dazzle entertainment; keep it by your bedside
Sweet taste of sovereignty
It seems “Global Britain” is smaller and less delicious
Acronyms
Acronyms are one of the means by which bureaucracies hide or obfuscate what they do