Visual mess
The pride flag has ended up symbolising nothing at all
Murders for the summer holidays
Jeremy Black recommends a menagerie of disturbing animal-themed stories to entertain throughout the summer
Infinite enjoyment
Duff Cooper understood wine’s power as ‘firm friend and wise councillor’
Feminist fallacies: Women need to calm down
Feminists will only “chill out” when male violence and harassment is eradicated
The forbidden S-word
Countries worldwide have witnessed a systemic erasure of sex from public policy just when the data will be needed most
Obsessed by fantasy football
To enter a Fantasy Football season is to be as one with Donald Rumsfeld prior to the Iraq War, but with less insight
Ralph Fiennes, Four Quartets and the future of theatre
It’s impossible to hear Eliot’s meditations and not be reminded of our current national ordeal
The perils of artivism
No space for art: how the ICA has been using public generosity to promote political activism
Pitch inversion
Boris Johnson may rue the day he gave a footballer a gong for something other than football
No place for women in art
If there’s one thing that unites elite British artists today, it’s that they’re all performatively woke or shamefully silent
Sean Lock – the comedian’s comedian
Lock, who has died at the age of 58, was a popular figure on the UK comedy circuit — not bad for someone who described himself as “a miserable, authoritarian guy”