From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
