The degrading cynicism of Joe Biden
While Trump was firm but measured, Biden’s response was to consistently stoke fear of death
Ms Harris would like to speak to you
The Democratic VP candidate’s officious manner betrays a bureaucratic vindictiveness
Trump is waging asymmetric warfare – and it’s working
Biden came in for some rough treatment in the first presidential debate
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
