Hold a mirror up to France
Imagine the Channel migrant crisis were reversed — who would the media blame?
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
