The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves
Fishermen’s tails
Through history, Mermaids have been treated as more real than legendary, even by those who have had a reputation to uphold
Et tu? The grim fate of the usual suspects
Peter Stothard’s depiction of the demise of Caesar emphasises the humanity of the emperor’s killer
The road to Book Pyre Beacon
The cult of Woke has old roots, deep in the mulch of evangelical intolerance
Recanting decanting
An expensive evacuation of the Palace of Westminster has now fallen out of favour
Brahms 4th symphony, MacMillan Larghetto for orchestra
The Larghetto’s organic optimism transcends present woes and looks to bright eternity
God wake ye, Merry England
The decadence and excess of the city is of a piece with puritanical restraint
The Crimean War
Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea
Thai feasts, muscular unionists and literary panjandrums
The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author
Losing face
How do you pick up your nephew if you can’t recognise anyone?
Beheading the hydra
Kemi Badenoch takes on the Equalities Industry
Her story repeats itself
Hidden Lessons is filled with clichéd phrasing and, even worse, predictable and clichéd thinking
Fishing wars
Brexit fallout sees France going into decline, while Britain exploits its new-found freedoms
Sexists in gay armour
The feminist fix: If transwomen are women, why do so many men listen to them?