Tough love
What modern families are missing
Let them eat filberts
The new owner of Antoinette’s jewellery will not just get exquisite gems but a provenance that is equally perfect and poignant
War on words
A recent court case could give free speech advocates some serious leverage against the government
Stonewall finally accept debate
Middle Temple made history with its LGBTQ+ forum
The handmaid’s fail
Margaret Atwood trashes her legacy
Murders for late December
Not all is grim and gloom in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series
Sherlock Holmes plays the white man
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s many passions included a view of Empire that would today be regarded as racist
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
UNES-GO
Liverpool in the wake of losing its UNESCO world heritage status
Studio: Piranesi
Alasdair Palmer visits an exhibition at the Fondazione Marco Besso, Rome
Spanish prize
Jonathan Ruffer’s daring philanthropic experiment hopes to bring a different kind of regeneration to the north-east
Sacred calves
Parental regret should be taboo — because the children might be listening