A forgotten poet of the people
The legacy of a left behind war poet
Writer who caught the reality of war
Vasily Grossman was not only a great correspondent in World War Two but a courageous dissident
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
