Terrible beauty
Does the World Press know what constitutes photojournalism?
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
