It’s more than just a bag
The V&A’s new exhibition demonstrates that a handbag is indeed much more than its function
A feast, plain and simple
You wait ages for a decent Irish cookbook, then two arrive together, says Melanie McDonagh
Fairy tales have gone woke
Pulling up fairy tales by the roots in the name of feminism makes barren fare for the reader
The tragic downfall of Lord Alfred Douglas
The 20th-anniversary edition of Douglas Murray’s Bosie remains the seminal account of the tragic life of Lord Alfred Douglas
Flirting with damnation
As Greene explained to his wife when their marriage ended, what made him a bad husband was precisely what made him a good writer
Unfinished Business at the British Library
The British Library’s new exhibition on feminism is like being hit with a rolled-up copy of Spare Rib
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
