Beware of Bad Ideas
The democratic state has a duty to act as an ideological gate keeper to protect society
Jamestown Year 1
Capture the past and shape the future
Festive nuts and spice
Nancy Mitford’s 1932 festive novella ‘Christmas Pudding’ is the tonic 2020 is crying out for
Prokofiev/Miaskovsky: Symphonies (LAWO Classics)
Norman Leberecht laments not being able to give the Oslo Philharmonic the five stars they deserve
Learning to love Big Brother
A contemporary political drama uses the double whammy of Covid and Brexit to reanimate older, primeval forces
Will Scotland’s election next May go ahead as planned?
The Scottish government is working up Covid contingencies to postpone the poll or make it postal vote only
Feminist art historians get Artemisia Gentileschi wrong
Contemporary feminist art theory: little help in understanding a seventeenth century artist
Are American universities under foreign control?
Paul du Quenoy reveals the unreported foreign investment in US universities
Spare the rod
Spoiled beaks and free thought at Eton
Dress sense
The average rock band from the 1980s onwards dressed as if they were going to fix your car, not blow your mind
A life in miniature
‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life
Is egg freezing the solution to gender inequality?
Why are more and more women are opting to freeze their eggs as a form of fertility insurance policy?