Adventures in La-La Land
Simon Callow reviews A Fate Worse than Hollywood by David Ambrose
Don’t buffer the truth about censorship zones
This is an attack on freedom and choice
A shapeless, moving, end in itself
So entropic is Geoff Dyer’s latest that the reader seeks desperately for structure
A Hitch in time
Our Falklands correspondent muses on the importance of the war to the late journalist
From RP to cock-er-ney
Why can’t politicians be themselves?
Why are British politicians such utter bores?
Mediocre people for mediocre times
An unfinished masterpiece
One senses that, in this volume of Picasso’s life, John Richardson is only doing the hands and faces
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
Naughty noughties
History repeats itself in more ways than one
Lavender letters
Bozza has left the building
The silence that tells Joe Biden who his real allies are
Irish reluctance to support Ukraine presents Unionists with an opportunity to counter American Brit-bashing over the Protocol reforms
Why women don’t trust Penny Mordaunt
She is not being honest about her record