Archives
A silent crook
The recent restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives shows that the original movie is astonishingly modern
The ascent of Barbara Pym
A chronicler of the overlooked, she has at last got her just literary deserts
Jean Sibelius: Orchestral songs (LAWO)
The themes are cruel and cold
Murders for September
Past and future killings
The dangerous charms of models
Mask mandates failed
The case of the legless duchess
A tale that proves the media and the public still thrill to an art theft
Lunching on the FT
Its analysis betrays its biases again
In praise of stupid politicians
Literary intelligence is not everything
Some like it chilled
Summer is the perfect time for cold soup
The meaning of World War Two history
Our responsibility to remember
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
