Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
Losing face
How do you pick up your nephew if you can’t recognise anyone?
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
The chance introduction that led to some extraordinary evenings with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Studio: Piranesi
Alasdair Palmer visits an exhibition at the Fondazione Marco Besso, Rome
Dilyn the Dog plays charades
Bozzo is getting to know his MPs
Arrest the chest
The danger of endorsing extreme gender ideology
Prisoner of conscience
Ceri Black faces prosecution for tweeting that child rapists and their enablers should be stopped
Meet the SAGE of hate crime
The unaccountable group that shapes hate crime policy
The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves
O blind new world
Behind modernity’s moralistic exhortations lies a cold-blooded mania for total control
Fishing wars
Brexit fallout sees France going into decline, while Britain exploits its new-found freedoms
Miller’s victory
2021 will be remembered as the turning of the tide of gender ideology