Pretendians and the crisis of the self
Why are people manufacturing indigenous heritage?
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
