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Brave and barmy new worlds
The solemn, febrile and deeply bonkers ferment of interwar modernism
Midsummer fever dream
What is the direction of theatre for the next season?
Anatomy of a miserable deal
Barnier’s Secret Journal should interest British readers due to the insights on whether the UK could have negotiated a better deal
Big game hunting
Boris Starling looks ahead to the excitement and exhilaration of the upcoming British Lions tour
The long arm of the Chekists
This book is an apt metaphor for the state of freedom of speech in modern Britain
Studio: The Venice Architecture Biennale
An exuberant return to the beleaguered lagoon city
The faltering heart of the BBC
Amongst the dearth of decent BBC Radio content, “Start the Week” is outstanding
Alice in blunderland
The V&A reckons Alice in Wonderland is a self-help manual in the sex-war rather than the daydreams of an old Oxford perv
Power without pain
Social media “platforms” such as Twitter and Facebook plainly are publishers.
They should be held to account as such
The calamitous course of history
Reading Doom might not save us, but it leaves us with a better appreciation of the complex politics of catastrophe