It was absurd we accepted lockdown
It isn’t just the parties that should make us so angry, but the draconian restrictions themselves
The eye of the storm
Marie Le Conte on the bruising experience of inadvertently becoming the target of a Twitter feeding frenzy
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
