Don’t do as I do, do do as I say
Changing personnel is easier than changing things, finds Dominic Cummings
Harry, Meghan (and Jeremy) want to be alone
LA may not be the place for true socialist privacy
Ravel, Dutilleux, Debussy: Quart de nuit (Deux-Elles)
Norman Lebrecht is left wanting more Dutilleux
Finding the dividing line
Starmer seeks to trap Johnson on detail. But the future of the furlough scheme is really where the debate should head
Satire needs to find new targets
There are still plenty of institutions worth mocking
Warming is not the only threat
Our response to Covid-19 has shown us that national security depends on more than tanks, planes and climate preparedness
Lana Del Rey’s poetic dream
The news is bad, but on Del Rey’s watch the poetry is sometimes pretty good, and getting better
The dignity of domestic labour
Louise Perry says there is nothing demeaning about work traditionally done by women
CHOP gets the chop
An experiment in self-government has been annexed by the United States of Amerikka
Normal Cervix Resumes
The BBC cancels Mermaids, time is racist, Nasa goes woke, and 2 + 2 = 5
Artists shaped by war
Practically all the artists in the book are traumatised in one way or another, and all experienced war
Had cake, ate cake
Why Boris won’t allow other people to enjoy the things he has